My idea: You can encapsulate complex writes by modifing your function
save() of models you create and you can encapsulate complex reads by
creating SQL VIEWS.
Other than that: 100 tables? for what? Clean database design based on
an ERD does NOT depend on applications running ORM-Layers or in MVC-
Have a skim through this article by one of the creators:
http://bakery.cakephp.org/articles/view/quick-tip-doing-ad-hoc-joins-in-model-find
I used the method myself recently to build a 7 table join for
filtering complex data.
And Kohana (as well as its parent, CodeIgniter) barely even has MVC,
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Hello,
I have a big application (a social network) which has around 100
tables. It is currently developed using traditional coding styles
(i.e. no MVC or ORM).
- I need to know whether cakephp will allow me to have complex joins
without the need to build a proper object model (i.e. relations etc
