Re: CakePHP 3 New ORM

2014-08-19 Thread Thomas von Hassel
In the last example each person entity will have a person_set property when you loop it Also ->toArray() on a query is a good way to see what the result set contains /Thomas Sent from my iPhone > On 19/08/2014, at 15.31, Dave Edwards wrote: > > Thanks for the replies, > > Having thought a

Re: CakePHP 3 New ORM

2014-08-19 Thread Dave Edwards
Thanks for the replies, Having thought about it, I think that main thing that currently confuses me is not the construction of the queries, but the process of getting to the data once the object has been returned. Previously I could just drop a pr($result) into the Controller or view and immedi

Re: CakePHP 3 New ORM

2014-08-19 Thread Thomas von Hassel
Exactly, but if you have been using 2.x for a long time, you have to "unlearn" all the quirks. Once you do that things are much more intuitive in the new ORM /thomas On 19 Aug 2014, at 11:16, José Lorenzo wrote: > I don't think it is, on the contrary, I feel that the ORM is much more > appro

Re: CakePHP 3 New ORM

2014-08-19 Thread José Lorenzo
My answers are inline: On Monday, August 18, 2014 4:59:42 PM UTC+2, Dave Edwards wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm having trouble getting my head around the new ways of working with the > new ORM in CakePHP 3. > That's normal, given that you are a longtime CakePHP user, hopefully it will make sense to you

Re: CakePHP 3 New ORM

2014-08-18 Thread Thomas von Hassel
In the first example you could call $query->toArray() to get an array of article objects back. The beauty is when you can start chaining stuff together, for instance custom find methods /thomas On 18 Aug 2014, at 16:59, Dave Edwards wrote: > Hi, > > I'm having trouble getting my head aroun

CakePHP 3 New ORM

2014-08-18 Thread Dave Edwards
Hi, I'm having trouble getting my head around the new ways of working with the new ORM in CakePHP 3. I understand that an object is now returned instead of an array, but I find the amount of new Documentation to explain the new methods of working with Models almost overwhelming. Whilst it is c