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by Behzad-3 :: Rate this Message:

In my opinion, there is a problem with ZF's naming scheme for MVC components, regardless
of our current discussion.

Zend_Loader defines a scheme to load classes. You're encouraged to follow this scheme
within your ZF-based application: Zend_Loader('X_Y_Z') loads X\Y\Z.php.

Why ZF itself doesn't follow this scheme to "name and store" controllers and models?
Inconsistent naming schemes leads to confusion; something which happens all the time
to me when I want to name classes in ZF. "It makes me and you to Think!".

There is an upcoming component "Zend_Controller_Action_Helper_ModelLoader" to solve
models loading problem. I think that's a patch to solve the problem.
If ZF-ians follow a standard naming scheme through their framework,
these problems won't arise at all and we won't need these patches.

Regards,

On Dec 3, 2007 8:03 PM, Xavier Vidal Piera < xavividal@...> wrote:

The only reason to make that model classes named that way is to avoid namespace collisions, but you can name that classes as you like. The problem will appear if someday a class named Story appears (from another package or external lib), any attempt to use two classes with the same name will throw an error.

On Dec 3, 2007 4:51 PM, Whitcraft, Jon <jwhitcraft@...> wrote:

Xavier,

I ran into that problem too. I just refactored the class name to be new_Models_Story which makes no sense but it works for right now and going back later to refactor once it gets all figured out wont be too hard as the Zend Neon Beta does a good job of finding all the occurrences of that class.

Cheers

Jon Whitcraft
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From: Xavier Vidal Piera [mailto:xavividal@...]
Sent: Monday, December 03, 2007 10:17 AM
To: Whitcraft, Jon
Cc: Marko Korhonen; fw-mvc@...

Subject: Re: [fw-mvc] Shared Models in Different Modules

Yes

But i remember to do that in lowercase (module names are in lowercase), so i have all the folder structure in lower case.

At this moment, any way to organize better the model classes will be apreciated.

On Dec 3, 2007 2:09 PM, Whitcraft, Jon <jwhitcraft@...> wrote:

So if I understand you correctly, I should be able to do this

$story = new News_Models_Story();

Where this is my directory structure:

./modules/

       ./news/

            ./models/

                  Story.php

Correct?

Jon Whitcraft
Indianapolis Motor Speedway
jwhitcraft@...

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From: Xavier Vidal Piera [mailto: xavividal@...]
Sent: Monday, December 03, 2007 7:54 AM
To: Marko Korhonen
Cc: fw-mvc@...
Subject: Re: [fw-mvc] Shared Models in Different Modules

I'm treating model classes as framework classes using the conventional naming to avoid namespace collisions, so all the model classes common to all the application are stored in default/models/ and are named Default_Models_* so they can be easily be localized. Of course, inside the model class the "real name" is set with protected $_name.

You can have model classes in another modules and be namespaced accordingly.

The autoload function will find this classes the same way it finds the Zend Libs and other classes.

On Dec 3, 2007 6:35 AM, Marko Korhonen <marko.korhonen@...> wrote:

Hi to all!

I made one folder to all my models, and I appended the include_path with the
path to this folder.

$models_path = APPLICATION_PATH ."My_Application/Model/";

// include $models_path to include_path somewhere

Then where ever in actions I might need some model I just make:
$model = new Page();

or something like that...

So these models are shared by all controllers & actions but not by all my
different applications.

br,
Marko
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