On Tue, 2009-07-28 at 12:00 -0400, joomla-requ...@lists.nyphp.org wrote: > > Message: 4 > Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2009 11:33:48 -0400 > From: Mitch Pirtle <mitch.pir...@gmail.com> > To: "NYPHP SIG: Joomla" <joomla@lists.nyphp.org> > Subject: Re: [joomla] JTable method > Message-ID: > <330532b60907280833p2d911a10w218cd56900136...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > I have a love/hate relationship with JTable.
Based on the documentation, what's to love? > It was created primarily > as a way for simple, canned access to database objects, like a > simplistic ORM of sorts. I'm not finding it all that simple. > However it has some glaring shortcomings due > to the "no sharp corners allowed" approach. > > I find myself jumping to good ol' JFactory::getDBO() more often than > not, as I'm happy doing it myself. > Yeah, I think I'm more comfortable doing it that way myself too. Found a helpful tutorial on making custom modules at joomladin.com. I wish this book had that kind of straightforward approach. I think I need a better book. > JTable is also very handy for whipping together admin screens, > assuming you have a very flat schema ;-) That's what they are doing at this point in the text. Eventually, the two components that I have to (read: hope to) build will have rather complex schemas. One of those planned has about a dozen tables just to be normalized. >8-0 Thanks for the feedback. Mark -- Mark Simko ====================== Digifix 659 Wool Ave. Franklin Square, NY 11010 ======================= 516 376 5564 516 292 0223 ======================= msi...@digifix.us masi...@verizon.net www.digifix.us _______________________________________________ New York PHP SIG: Joomla! Mailing List http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/joomla NYPHPCon 2006 Presentations Online http://www.nyphpcon.com Show Your Participation in New York PHP http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php
