Question

I want to use the database access objects to access a table in my database instead of doing active record since that takes a long time to load. if I use database access objets instead (calling createCommand, query, execute, etc), do i still need to create a model class for the table? if so what would be the parent class of this model class? My goal is to access/edit the table values using yii database access objects. I’m using YII FRAMEWORK. Or is it best to use a component? If so, when do you usually have to use components? I don’t understand what components are for….

Answer 1

No, you can create a generic class which has a member property of a CDbConnection. For that matter, you can just use CDbConnection, but you might end up creating a lot of connections that way.

class Foo
{
    private $conn;

    function __construct(){ $this->conn = 
                             new CDbConnection($dsn,$username,$password); }

    function runQuery($sql) {
        $command=$connection->createCommand($sqlStatement);
        return $command->query();
    }
}