[fw-general] Database Migrations - Yes, No, Maybe?

2008-11-07 Thread Phoenix
Coming to ZF from a Rails background (because I'm much stronger in PHP than in Ruby), one of the things that irks me is the *apparent* lack of a formal database migration system. In Rails, you create migration files, define the structure and/or changes in a DB-neutral context, then run the

Re: [fw-general] Database Migrations - Yes, No, Maybe?

2008-11-07 Thread Benjamin Eberlei
does not exist and is not planned from what i can see in the proposals (there is one proposal, but its inactive for many months). if you want to use a formal migration system use Doctrine, Propel or ezcDatabaseSchema. All great components. Since ZF does not enforce a model component on you,

Re: [fw-general] Database Migrations - Yes, No, Maybe?

2008-11-07 Thread Matthew Ratzloff
This is something that I expect we'll see after Zend_Tool is completed and we approach 2.0, along with generators. Trust me, I want to see those things, too. :-) -Matt On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 10:41 AM, Benjamin Eberlei [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: does not exist and is not planned from what i can

RE: [fw-general] Database Migrations - Yes, No, Maybe?

2008-11-07 Thread Wil Sinclair
10:41 AM To: fw-general@lists.zend.com Subject: Re: [fw-general] Database Migrations - Yes, No, Maybe? does not exist and is not planned from what i can see in the proposals (there is one proposal, but its inactive for many months). if you want to use a formal migration system use Doctrine

Re: [fw-general] Database Migrations - Yes, No, Maybe?

2008-11-07 Thread Rob Allen
On 7 Nov 2008, at 21:47, Wil Sinclair wrote: If I'm not mistaken, Rob Allen originally proposed DB migrations some time back. Last I heard, he was planning to refactor that proposal to build on Zend_Tool. Rob, how off am I? That's the basic plan - Zend_Tool is the obvious vehicle to use