Thank you both for your replys they're very much appreciated. I am still however having some difficulty in understanding the model and would be very greatful if you could look at the following simple example and let me know where im going wrong.
I am about to build a simple site where users can add posts. At the moment my approach would be to first look at the nouns and create database tables based on those nouns so a post table and user table. To build the model I would then create a user class, users class, post class and posts class (just because of my current understanding based on ror and zf tutorials). It seems this process breaks down when you start to write complicated queries which bring back data from multiple tables because it is not clear where in the model the queries would be stored. Plus bills posts has seemed to put a nail in the coffin of that approach. Can anyone explain to me or show me somewhere that explains on a very high level for a beginner how the model fits into a system and how one should think about it when designing an application. For example should the model be designed at the same time the database is designed? Again any help would be greatly appreciated. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Newbie-quesiton---How-do-queries-that-join-multiple-tables-fit-into-the-model-in-the-MVC-tp20919944p20960788.html Sent from the Zend Framework mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
