-- Greg Donald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
(on Monday, 21 April 2008, 03:20 PM -0500):
> Is Zend_Db the "model" portion of ZF?  

No, it's not. It's a potential storage mechanism for a model, but not
the model itself. Consider that in today's web 2.0 world, your data need
not come from just a database, but from a variety of web services as
well, and you'll see why I answer this way.

> If so, where does one define data validations?  I found Zend_Validator
> but it doesn't seem to be used with Zend_Db in any of the
> documentation I've read up to now.  Wouldn't the two go hand in hand?
> What am I missing here?  Is there other documentation not listed on
> the Zend site?

I'd recommend building a model class with a public API you need for
accessing your data store. This is more of a Domain Model, and a better
locaion to put your data validation -- which you can do by integrating
Zend_Filter_Input or Zend_Form into your model as well.

-- 
Matthew Weier O'Phinney
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