Yeah but it could be a helper method that wraps the call to getAuthor in order to return author name.
Marco Pivetta <[email protected]> wrote: That's conceptually wrong. You first get the author, then his name. You don't call `getAuthorName` on a book. Marco Pivetta http://twitter.com/Ocramius http://ocramius.github.com/ On 7 April 2013 00:10, sinimix [via Zend Framework Community] < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm using DataMapper pattern and want to access data of one entity from > another entity related to each other. > > Let's say that there are two entities Book and Author, linked via > author_id. > > > AuthorEntity > ------ > id > name > -- > get/setId() > get/setName() > > > BookEntity > ---------- > id > name > author_id > --- > get/setId() > get/setName() > get/setAuthorId() > > > I want to get author name from BookEntity, e.g. $book->getAuthorName(), > but I'm not sure where and how to start from. Any suggestion? > > ------------------------------ > If you reply to this email, your message will be added to the discussion > below: > > http://zend-framework-community.634137.n4.nabble.com/ZF2-How-to-get-data-from-related-entity-tp4659642.html > To start a new topic under Zend Framework, email > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from Zend Framework Community, click > here<http://zend-framework-community.634137.n4.nabble.com/template/NamlServlet.jtp?macro=unsubscribe_by_code&node=634137&code=b2NyYW1pdXNAZ21haWwuY29tfDYzNDEzN3wxNzE0OTI1MTk4> > . > NAML<http://zend-framework-community.634137.n4.nabble.com/template/NamlServlet.jtp?macro=macro_viewer&id=instant_html%21nabble%3Aemail.naml&base=nabble.naml.namespaces.BasicNamespace-nabble.view.web.template.NabbleNamespace-nabble.view.web.template.NodeNamespace&breadcrumbs=notify_subscribers%21nabble%3Aemail.naml-instant_emails%21nabble%3Aemail.naml-send_instant_email%21nabble%3Aemail.naml> > -- View this message in context: http://zend-framework-community.634137.n4.nabble.com/Re-ZF2-How-to-get-data-from-related-entity-tp4659643.html Sent from the Zend Framework mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
