I just migrate to yii and i created a model which it created an CActiveRecord with gii and after that i make some changes in database then it make me confused, now my question is :
1 - Should i recreate Model with gii after any change to database ? Why Active record in yii is much complicated than other frameworks like zend or codigniter !?
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If we should not change Model Class, where should we put our database functions !!? aren't Model is there for doing so?
分享 I think, You should ideally recreate the model after DB structural changes.
In our project, We are following the rule,
Do not make any changes in the models generated by gii. So that if there are DB changes in future, we could directly regenerate the models and will have no merging efforts.
This is also inline with philosophy of design,
**Objects** hide their data behind abstractions and expose functions that operate on that data.
**Data structures**
expose their data and have no meaningful functions. It only has methods to operate on data.
ActiveRecords(models in yii) are nothing but data structures.By adding business rules in ActiveRecords, you are mixing your data structures and objects.
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