I know Scott has decided on a with a solution, but I'd like to continue this fruitful discussion.
On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 17:38:41 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It was last night when I realised that there is no real concrete > relationship between Article and Comment as at the end of the day an Article > can exist without comments I'm curious why everyone is asking, "Can an article exist without comments?" I've been asking myself the opposite question: "Can a comment exist without an article?" In a typical blog, I think the answer is no. That's why I think comments should be tucked away under articles. Since you can't retrieve a comment without knowing the article to which it belongs, doesn't it make sense just to get the comments by traversing the article? Why burden a higher level module with the repsonsibility of managing that relationship? And if an article knows about its comments, why not just store the comments when you store the article, freeing the higher level module from that burden as well? <cf_tangent> When I encounter a room full of unruly objects, the first thing I do is ask each of them why they're there. Invariably, many of them will say, "Because so and so dragged me here." I send those objects out of the room so I can focus on what the primary objects are doing. </cf_tagent> > so if I were to feed that down the uber DAO > pipe, it would have to do some logic to firstly determine if a comment > exists, how many and save them... I don't think you need an if statement to determine whether an article has comments. An article will always have a /collection/ of comments. That collection may be empty -- and it always is initially -- but it's still there. Patrick -- Patrick McElhaney 704.560.9117 http://pmcelhaney.blogspot.com ---------------------------------------------------------- You are subscribed to cfcdev. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the words 'unsubscribe cfcdev' in the message of the email. CFCDev is run by CFCZone (www.cfczone.org) and supported by Mindtool, Corporation (www.mindtool.com). An archive of the CFCDev list is available at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]
