RE: [PHP] Re: Newbie: Composition by Association - Pagination Class general question.

2009-07-22 Thread MEM
As for (1) even in my pre-OO days I was used to using a single generic DAO for all database access. The only time that more than one DAO existed was for a different DBMS engine. This is why I have one DAO class for MySQL, one for PostgreSQL and another for Oracle. If you are

Re: [PHP] Re: Newbie: Composition by Association - Pagination Class general question.

2009-07-22 Thread Tony Marston
MEM tal...@gmail.com wrote in message news:000201ca0a9f$ca3fb110$5ebf13...@com... As for (1) even in my pre-OO days I was used to using a single generic DAO for all database access. The only time that more than one DAO existed was for a different DBMS engine. This is why I have one

RE: [PHP] Re: Newbie: Composition by Association - Pagination Class general question.

2009-07-22 Thread MEM
Thanks a lot Tony. Unfortunately for me, I'm seeing myself in no conditions for properly learning a framework. I want to learn PHP and a framework bring so many concepts at once, that I found extremely complex and time consuming do dig in, at once, right now. Since I have no more than a few months

RE: [PHP] Re: Newbie: Composition by Association - Pagination Class general question.

2009-07-19 Thread MEM
As for (1) even in my pre-OO days I was used to using a single generic DAO for all database access. The only time that more than one DAO existed was for a different DBMS engine. This is why I have one DAO class for MySQL, one for PostgreSQL and another for Oracle. If you are incapable of

RE: [PHP] Re: Newbie: Composition by Association - Pagination Class general question.

2009-07-19 Thread MEM
As for (1) even in my pre-OO days I was used to using a single generic DAO for all database access. The only time that more than one DAO existed was for a different DBMS engine. This is why I have one DAO class for MySQL, one for PostgreSQL and another for Oracle. If you are

Re: [PHP] Re: Newbie: Composition by Association - Pagination Class general question.

2009-07-19 Thread Tony Marston
MEM tal...@gmail.com wrote in message news:002001ca0898$5d183840$1748a8...@com... As for (1) even in my pre-OO days I was used to using a single generic DAO for all database access. The only time that more than one DAO existed was for a different DBMS engine. This is why I have one DAO

RE: [PHP] Re: Newbie: Composition by Association - Pagination Class general question.

2009-07-19 Thread MEM
Why not? Why can't you replace a call to a mysqli function with a call to a PDO function? It's not just a simple replacement - I need to add bindparam, prepare, execute, placeholders and fetchObject. But I will give it a try... Also, I also intend to use fetchObject method instead of

Re: [PHP] Re: Newbie: Composition by Association - Pagination Class general question.

2009-07-19 Thread Paul M Foster
On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 03:56:43PM +0100, Tony Marston wrote: Two things strike me as wrong with your thinking: (1) The idea that you have a separate DAO for each entity instead of a single generic DAO which can act for any entity in the system. (2) The idea that pagination requires its own