Question

I’ve been working with Doctrine_Record classes that autoload just fine for a while; but after some reading, I’ve decided I would like to implement both Doctrine_Records as well as Custom Table Classes.

So I added this to my bootstrap

    $manager->setAttribute(
        Doctrine::ATTR_AUTOLOAD_TABLE_CLASSES,
        true
    );

Which has made the Custom table classes work just fine… but it breaks autoloading Records!

How to make both autoload?

I.E. new User.php gets my User Doctrine_Record class and Doctrine_Core::getTable(‘User’) gets my Custom UserTable class.

Here’s how it looked (working) before I tried implementing Custom Tables:

public function _initDoctrine() {
        require_once 'Doctrine.php';
        /*
         * Autoload Doctrine Library and connect
         * use appconfig.ini doctrine.dsn
         */
        $this   ->getApplication()
                ->getAutoloader()
                ->pushAutoloader(array(
                                'Doctrine',
                                'autoload'),
                                'Doctrine');
        $manager = Doctrine_Manager::getInstance();
        $manager->setAttribute(
            Doctrine::ATTR_AUTO_ACCESSOR_OVERRIDE, 
            true
        );

        $manager->setAttribute(
            Doctrine::ATTR_MODEL_LOADING,
            Doctrine::MODEL_LOADING_CONSERVATIVE
        );
            // try these custom tables out!
        // $manager->setAttribute( Doctrine::ATTR_AUTOLOAD_TABLE_CLASSES, true );

        $config = $this->getOption('doctrine');
        $conn = Doctrine_Manager::connection($config['dsn'], 'doctrine');
        return $conn;
        // can call flush on the connection to save any unsaved records
    }

Thanks

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edit:

Let me clarify.

Not just custom classes.. I already use custom classes which extend Doctrine_Record.

class Model_User extends Doctrine_Record {}

$foo = new Model_User;

Much of my application currently works around this and will not be changing in that respect.

However, I would like to ALSO use Custom Tables

class UserTable extends Doctrine_Table {}

$bar = Doctrine_Core::getTable('User');

But, as soon as I enable this (custom table classes) feature to call classes of Doctrine_Table utilising the Table suffix. Any Doctrine_Record classes I’ve previously extended and called directly, stops working! I want to make use of both!

Answer 1

I found the problem!

You must make sure every x.php Doctrine_Record class has an associated xTable.php Doctrine_Table class or the record loading will break!