Re: MDB 2.0 question

<bmansion@mamasam.com> wrote : > <smith@backendmedia.com> wrote : > >>> From: Lukas Smith [mailto:smith@backendmedia.com] >>> Sent: Friday, July 18, 2003 6:39 PM >> >>> ok I have a little question about MDB 2.0 and I am interested in your >>> opinions. Basically I want to move some functionality into separate >>> classes that will be loaded as class properties. >>> >>> Actually this is already done in the management methods in MDB 1.x. >>> However I am not sure if I really like how its done there. >>> >>> Let me explain: >> >> <snip attempt to explain> >> >> Maybe I need to make this even simplier. >> In the current way people would need to call createDatabase() as >> follows: >> $mdb->manager->createDatabase($mdb, $name); >> >> In the new way it would be: >> $mdb->manager->createDatabase($name); > > That's a design problem and really it should be up to you because both > solutions have pros and cons. It's not by asking people for what they think > that you will find the best way. Personally, I would prefer solution 1 that > makes it possible to call the method statically. But you seem to prefer > solution 2 because it's easier to use... So you see, no real good solution, > it's up to what you want to allow with MDB 2.0. Furthermore, I don't really like the idea to have a recursive reference like $db->manager->db. It will make it more difficult to debug. Bertrand Mansion Mamasam