I've used cakePHP in the past and am exploring fuelPHP now. I'm still a noob so please excuse any dumb questions. I did a search on this but didn't find anything yet.
Question 1: Is there a DRY way to define columns for models?
I have status flags SOME of my tables in my database. Status of type tinyint(1) can hold a 1 or 0. I find myself defining status over and over again in my fuel model classes. I'm wondering if there is DRY way of handling this or if there is a design decision behind not handling this.
My initial idea was to extend the Orm w/ my own custom MyOrm and define it in the _properties member where i can set the default to 1.
Question 2: Can I use UUIDs for ID instead of autoincrement ID?
My database uses UUIDs (format like 5047b029-a7e0-4c57-83d4-493c77bd6c23) instead of auto-increment integers as IDs (like 1, 2, 3, etc).
I have created my own MyOrm class which extends Orm and overwritten the __construct method to do this:
public function __construct(array $data = array(), $new = true, $view = null)
I do exactly the same. I have an application where each table has a create, an update and a userid field. I just created a base model that extends Orm\Model, which defines these properties, and the observers needed to make them work.
The Models themselfs then extend the base model.
As to the UUID, I would use the same base model to extend the insert method, assign the UUID to $this->id if null, and call the parent method to insert the record. Much cleaner then doing it in the constructor, because the ORM expects an object in state 'new' not to have a PK.
What is best method for extending a base models properties in a mixin type manner? Looking to do this same scenario, have id/created_at/updated_at/created_by/updated_by/assigned_to/deleted as "base" properties.
In working prototype I created a base model extending Orm, then all other models extend base. I extend the __construct method to merge the properties and observers between parent/child:
All these properties are static, so do it in _init(), not in __construct(). It only needs to happen once, when the class is loaded.
This is how I do it.
Also, you'll have to make it a bit more foolproof, the extended class can define it's own properties and observers, array_merge() might overwrite existing definitions.
With using _init() how do you reference the child classes static properties to merge in? In the __construct I can do get_class($this) in order to access, but with the static _init() $this doesnt exist, tried get_called_class() but was getting some weird errors. What is method for getting the child class from within the static _init() call?
On the second note regarding array_merge() usage, my intended behavior is to have the extension be additive or destructive with the model the child is extending and loading over, so no worries on overwriting.
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