Question

Hi I am fairly new to Zend framework.

I am working with a tutorial found here:
http://akrabat.com/zend-framework-tutorial/.

In order to explore more, I created another table in my database called recordLabel which contains an id, a name and an address.

While after many trials I finally managed to do my join, I realize that the code for it was implemented in the Controller.

My question is a simple one, is it not better for this code that manages data to sit in a Model rather than a Controller ?

I have to models: Albums and RecordLabel, in which of these should it sit then ?

Answer 1

As one artist can have many albums and each one have a single record label I would put this query in the album model part of a get method like :

$select = $table->select()
    ->from('album')
    ->join('record_label',
        'album.record_label_id = record_label.id);

If on the other hand, an album can have many releases on different labels, I would put it in the record label, part of a method getRecordLabelByAlbum($albumId).