Re: Attributes support proposal
| From: | Christian Schneider | Date: | Mon, 18 Apr 2005 15:37:40 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Attributes support proposal | ||
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Hendy Irawan wrote:
database because the metadata is already built-in. Just a rough sketch: [columnType: "VARCHAR", size: 20] public $name; [columnType: "DATE"] public $birthDate;We do exactly this in PHP 4 already. The base class gets the meta-data from the DB and stores it in $this->_fields. No special language features needed, not even Reflection ;-) I'm with Wez that I yet have to see a killer application of such a feature. - Chris