Re: What is the best practice for adding persistence to an MVC model?

On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 04:11:32PM +0000, David Otton wrote: > 2009/10/27 Paul M Foster <paulf@quillandmouse.com>: > > > On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 05:27:07PM +1100, Eric Bauman wrote: > > >> I'm in the process of implementing an ultra-light MVC framework in PHP. > >> It seems to be a common opinion that the loading of data from a > >> database, file etc. should be independent of the Model, and I agree. > >> What I'm unsure of is the best way to link this "data layer" into MVC. > > > I disagree. There should be database class(es) which know how to deal > > Paul, you already did this in one of Eric's threads a couple of weeks > back, and the best you could come up with when pressed was "Probably > not a great example, but...". Is it really necessary to rehash this? I don't track threads closely enough to know if it's the same OP on this thread. Apologies if I'm repeating myself. I don't recall anyone disputing my example, nor any effective rebuttal at all. And by the time I finished writing that email, I thought it was a better example than I originally believed. Paul -- Paul M. Foster