Using Zend Framework and Doctrine with independend modular structures
- by stefax
I've seen a lot of articles about integrating ZF and Doctrine. There is also a proposal for ZF here but they have always two possible structures. Either they put all models into one top level model directory or they put it into a module related model directory.
application
|-- Bootstrap.php
|-- configs
|-- controllers
|-- models - EITHER HERE
|-- modules
| -- examplemodule
| |-- controllers
| |-- models - OR HERE
| |-- views
|-- views
For our projects I see problems for either of the two options:
1. One directory: application/models - in a complex system after a short time there will be hundreds of files, over all when you have the table classes two (e.g. User.php and UserTable.php).
2. Module based model directories: application/modules/examplemodule/models - in many cases we use models in multiple modules at the same time. So the "User" is required e.g. in the modules "game", "administration", ...
Is there a way to use some kind of sub directories under the top level directory "models" to get some grouping. It should be completely independent of the module structure.
application
|-- Bootstrap.php
...
|-- models
| -- user
| |-- User.php
| |-- Friend.php
| |-- other user related models
| -- game
| |-- Game.php
| |-- Score.php
| |-- ...
...
Any solution should support autoloading and the class generation from yaml files.
Any ideas, links or solutions? Thanks!
