Comments on: ActiveRecord in PHP

By: Pet

Pet — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 17:23:10 +0000

Hi Luke,

first, I would like to say I really like the class you’ve made! Sure makes programming PHP a lot easier and a lot more fun :)

At http://www.painfullscratch.nl/code/activerecord.diff you’ll find a small patch (against revision 280) which handles these changes:

- require_once will now require the absolute filename instead of a relative one. I’m having a project in which another “config.php” was present in the require_path. This resulted in an error.

- classes with which there is an association will automaticly be required.

- the is_modified() method will now only return true when the record is actually modified (I don’t know what Ruby’s behavior is?).

Please let me know what you think.(I’ll leave for vacation tomorrowmorning, so if you would like to start a discussion, you’ll have to be patient for my reaction :)).

Best regards,

Patrick ‘Pet / Petski’ Kuijvenhoven
The Netherlands

By: Luke

Luke — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 13:24:56 +0000

@Tim, I believe it is ready for production, though I’ve only put it in production on a rarely used application. I’m sure there are bugs, but I believe it to be fairly solid in general.

@Bill, that looks like PHP4 trying to run PHP5 code. Sorry I can’t be of more help.

@Mark, thanks. I have not done anything with more flexibility overriding the default column names. I half built it with that possibility down the road, but I couldn’t tell you how hard it would be to get that working. It certainly isn’t built in at this point, though contributions are welcome!

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 13:14:40 +0000

Great work with this implementation! One question though, is it possibly to have a 1:many relationship with a column name different to tablename_id?

E.g. I have a table “users” containing students and tutors.
In some other table I may have two foreign keys such as “student_user_id”, “tutor_user_id”

Is this possible with ActiveRecord?

By: Bill Chiz

Bill Chiz — Mon, 26 May 2008 02:09:19 +0000

Thanks .. this looks great. I have setup everything as per the instructions but when I go to run generate.php I get the following wierd error … “Parse error: parse error, expecting `T_OLD_FUNCTION’ or `T_FUNCTION’ or `T_VAR’ or `’}” in /Applications/xampp/xamppfiles/htdocs/TestApp/models/activerecord/ActiveRecord.php on line 11″

I am running Mac OS X 10.4 and using the xampp to run mysql, apache, and php 5.2.5. Read some places were they suggested it was due to using php 4 but then I rechecked my php version using the php.info page and it shows that I am running php 5.2.5. Anyone ran into similar issues? Thanks for all your help …

By: Tim

Tim — Fri, 16 May 2008 08:32:22 +0000

Awesome! just what i was looking for. thanks.
Do you think think project is ready for production environments?

By: Dan

Dan — Sat, 03 May 2008 02:57:39 +0000

I’m sure generate.php is accessing the database as all of the model files are being generated. There’s just no Post.php.

btw, I downloaded and installed from php-activerecord-0.2_r242.tar.gz.

By: Luke

Luke — Fri, 02 May 2008 20:20:01 +0000

Dan, the generate.php script should create that file for you. If it isn’t something doing that, perhaps it can’t connect to the database or there’s some bug in there.

By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 02 May 2008 20:05:52 +0000

Let me ask a dumb question. The Install page says to include the line:

require_once ‘models/Post.php’;

in whatever script you want to use. I don’t find a Posts.php in the models directory, though.

By: Kevin Skoglund

Kevin Skoglund — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 18:36:07 +0000

Thanks!

You should note that php-activerecord-0.2_r242.tar.gz does not include License.txt.

By: Luke

Luke — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 18:27:30 +0000

Kevin, it most certainly is open source.

http://lukebaker.org/svn/repos/activerecord/trunk/LICENSE.txt