Hi everyone,
I've built a fairly large normalized database schema for a project.
This is fun for me as I like thinking about how everything is
interconnected. Foreign keys are all set up, many-to-many tables are
go, etc, and so on. But now it's time to create an interface between
that database and the website using PHP. I've searched the web and
this is obviously a very common problem with many solutions, but I
can't help but feel that all of the logic I've built into the database
is worth nothing once I start coding. I found this
article/presentation that essentially sums up my frustration:
http://mag-sol.com/talks/lpm/2006/orm/. Up until now I've been
working on smaller projects with only a few tables that don't really
relate to each other, and have found this tool
(http://www.ricocheting.com/code/php/mysql-database-class-wrapper)
very handy for the reasons he explains, but I'm looking for something
a little different. I've looked at RedBean and it seems pretty handy,
but it also requires me to redefine all of the foreign keys I've
already defined, which is annoying. Any hope of something like
// Get company where name='Widgets Inc.' or id=1 or....
$company = $db->get_company("name='Widgets Inc.'");
// Get all clients joined to the company
$clients = $company->get_clients();
// Get all projects joined to the client
$projects = $clients->get_projects();
?
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