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diff --git a/demos/quickstart/protected/pages/Database/ActiveRecord.page b/demos/quickstart/protected/pages/Database/ActiveRecord.page index a6e087b9..5fb7f41d 100644 --- a/demos/quickstart/protected/pages/Database/ActiveRecord.page +++ b/demos/quickstart/protected/pages/Database/ActiveRecord.page @@ -50,16 +50,16 @@ <li>Fetch relationships (related foreign objects) such as "has many", "has one", "belongs to" and "has many" via association table.</li> <li>Lazy loading of relationships.</li> </ul> -<h2>Design Implications</h2> -<p> +<h2 id="144003">Design Implications</h2> +<p id="720007" class="block-content"> Prado's implementation of Active Record does not maintain referential identity. Each object obtained using Active Record is a copy of the data in the database. For example, If you ask for a particular customer and get back a <tt>Customer</tt> object, the next time you ask for that customer you get back another instance of a <tt>Customer</tt> object. This implies that a strict comparison (i.e., using <tt>===</tt>) will return false, while loose comparison (i.e., using <tt>==</tt>) will return true if the object values are equal by loose comparison. -<p> -<p> +<p id="720008" class="block-content"> +<p id="720009" class="block-content"> This is design implication related to the following question. <i>"Do you think of the customer as an object, of which there's only one, or do you think of the objects you operate on as <b>copies</b> of the database?"</i> @@ -1059,14 +1059,14 @@ arrays. E.g. <tt>$player->skills[] = new SkillRecord()</tt>. If <tt>array</tt> w will be thrown. </p> -<h2>Column Mapping</h2> -<p> +<h2 id="144004">Column Mapping</h2> +<p id="720010" class="block-content"> Since v3.1.1, Active Record starts to support column mapping. Column mapping allows developers to address columns in Active Record using a more consistent naming convention. In particular, using column mapping, one can access a column using whatever name he likes, rather than limited by the name defined in the database schema. </p> -<p> +<p id="720011" class="block-content"> To use column mapping, declare a static array named <tt>COLUMN_MAPPING</tt> in the Active Record class. The keys of the array are column names (called <i>physical column names</i>) as defined in the database schema, while the values are corresponding property names (called <i>logical column names</i>) defined @@ -1093,7 +1093,7 @@ class UserRecord extends TActiveRecord //.... } </com:TTextHighlighter> -<p> +<p id="720012" class="block-content"> With the above column mapping, we can address <tt>first_name</tt> using <tt>$userRecord->firstName</tt> instead of <tt>$userRecord->first_name</tt>. This helps separation of logic and model. </p> |