Re: [PHP] Design Dilemma - Database Data Abstraction

2007-04-11 Thread Martin Alterisio
2007/4/10, Richard Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Sat, April 7, 2007 11:49 am, Martin Alterisio wrote: > The solution I presented is to access, and act upon, a database as if > they > were PHP arrays, meaning that a table is presented as an array of > records. I don't quite get why you think thi

Re: [PHP] Design Dilemma - Database Data Abstraction

2007-04-10 Thread Richard Lynch
On Sat, April 7, 2007 11:49 am, Martin Alterisio wrote: > The solution I presented is to access, and act upon, a database as if > they > were PHP arrays, meaning that a table is presented as an array of > records. I don't quite get why you think this is any more fool-proof than using a database in

Re: [PHP] Design Dilemma - Database Data Abstraction

2007-04-09 Thread Martin Alterisio
2007/4/9, Lester Caine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Martin Alterisio wrote: > I have a dilemma on a design where I humbly ask your help. I'm working on > the model part of a web application (not to be understood in the "web2.0 " > way, but in a more general way, where anything mounted on HTTP is a web >

Re: [PHP] Design Dilemma - Database Data Abstraction

2007-04-09 Thread Lester Caine
Martin Alterisio wrote: I have a dilemma on a design where I humbly ask your help. I'm working on the model part of a web application (not to be understood in the "web2.0" way, but in a more general way, where anything mounted on HTTP is a web application) done in PHP5 following the MVC design pa

Re: [PHP] Design Dilemma - Database Data Abstraction

2007-04-08 Thread Martin Alterisio
2007/4/8, Paul Novitski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: At 4/7/2007 09:49 AM, Martin Alterisio wrote: >The solution I presented is to access, and act upon, a database as if they >were PHP arrays, meaning that a table is presented as an array of records. This implies to me that you'll read a series of tabl

Re: [PHP] Design Dilemma - Database Data Abstraction

2007-04-07 Thread Paul Novitski
At 4/7/2007 09:49 AM, Martin Alterisio wrote: The solution I presented is to access, and act upon, a database as if they were PHP arrays, meaning that a table is presented as an array of records. This implies to me that you'll read a series of tables into arrays, modify the arrays, then update

[PHP] Design Dilemma - Database Data Abstraction

2007-04-07 Thread Martin Alterisio
I have a dilemma on a design where I humbly ask your help. I'm working on the model part of a web application (not to be understood in the "web2.0" way, but in a more general way, where anything mounted on HTTP is a web application) done in PHP5 following the MVC design pattern. But the strong poi