Re: Retrieving objects from the DB instead of arrays

I'm afraid that there's no satisfying answer for you. Cake doesn't map
DB records to objects; arrays are all you're gonna get. If you want
your data in objects instead of arrays, then you'll have to rework a
substantial part of the Cake core. You're stuck with arrays unless you
want to do some serious, serious work. ;)

As Andy mentioned, you can use Model callbacks - especially afterFind
- to format your data. You can also write helpers to accomplish a lot
of the dirty work. So, instead of $person->getAge(), you might have
$formatter->getAge($person['Person']['birthday']) where "$formatter"
is FormatterHelper and getAge() is a function that takes a date and
converts it to an age. For helpers:

http://book.cakephp.org/view/1095/Helpers

Hope that helps.

- Jamie

On Mar 30, 8:31 pm, paws_galuten <jason.galu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm new to cakePHP and it seems like the only way to retrieve data
> from the data source is as an array. I'm finding that I am using a lot
> of code in my controller to prepare the arrays for display in the
> view, when I would rather be able to send an object to the view and
> get data from that object.
>
> For example, if I had a person object, I could have an attribute that
> was their birthdate and in the view I could easily get their age with
> something like $person->getAge(). If I only have the person as an
> array, then I have to do the calculating of the age before I can
> display it.
>
> Does this make sense? It is a simplistic example, but I can see myself
> having to write a lot of code to manipulate arrays before the raw
> database data is usable.
>
> Thanks for your insights,
> Jason

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