Hi Greg, I believe this was already discussed.
http://www.nabble.com/Models%2C-Objects-and-RDBMS---Best-Practise-tf4052812s16154.html http://www.nabble.com/Models%2C-Objects-and-RDBMS---Best-Practise-tf4052812s16154.html Karol Greg Frith wrote: > > Hi list, > > A request for thoughts/advice if I may. I have an entity which I > wish to model, let's say for now it's a car. I want to be able to > use a 'car' object (or list of car objects) in my view. For example > $car->colour, $car->engineSize. > > Now, some of the information my site presents about the car comes > from a SOAP web service running on another server, and some > additional information comes from a local MySQL database. I > understand all the Zend_Db_* classes and how I might use them to > model my database car info. But I'm not too sure how to create an > object that represents a car combining information from both the Web > Service and the database. > > If for example I was to extend Zend_Db_Table_Row_Abstract to > represent the car, could I add additional public fields to hold the > data obtained through the Web Service without creating problems when > I use ->save and such methods? > > Or would I perhaps be better creating a car class that doesn't extend > Zend_Db_Table_Row_Abstract. Then either use the basic Zend_Db > class's or extend them slightly to do the DB work for a car. Calling > the various find and save methods from the car class? > > Thoughts? > > Many thanks, Greg Frith. > > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Data-models-tf4116540s16154.html#a11706987 Sent from the Zend Framework mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
