On Jan 21, 2009, at 4:20 PM, Christian Schneider wrote:
Nathan Rixham wrote:
seems to me that many of the new requests coming in, including my own
stupid ones are because people want to build fast decent orm's in
php -
Having built an ORM system myself I can say that you don't need
Reflection (or even other fancy features not yet in PHP) for this.
Yes, everyone and their brother has already developed an "ORM". I hope
you're not talking about ActiveRecord stuff. Would you mind sharing
(off-list) how you get data in and out of the objects
**transparently** (i cant highlight that enough), i.e. without forcing
the developer of some class to reveal all the properties that have
persistent state to the public API (via public properties or getter/
setters)?
Take a look beyond the php pond at other platforms and languages to
see how popular and important the idea of *transparent* ORM
persistence tools has become and guess what? They're almost all making
intensive use of reflection to realize the "transparent" part.
Cheers
Roman
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