Comments on: Making your life easier with Factory design patterns http://symfony.sopca.com/2007/01/05/making-your-life-easier-with-factory-design-patterns/ Symfony, PHP and web development directly from the horse's mouth Thu, 20 Nov 2008 12:39:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=wordpress-mu-1.0 by: pixelslut http://symfony.sopca.com/2007/01/05/making-your-life-easier-with-factory-design-patterns/#comment-11 Tue, 23 Jan 2007 15:50:20 +0000 http://symfony.sopca.com/2007/01/05/making-your-life-easier-with-factory-design-patterns/#comment-11 <p>Well ive been doing this with little knowledge of the pattern associated - just because im im "lazy" and didnt want to write the same lines of criteria or custom SQL code over and over. But i have a question... is there an easy way to update all these method in my model? For example i currently have 2 collections of these types of methods, one set dealing with a status type and another set dealing with timestamps. Ive noticed that i need to refactor these to make minor adjustments (this is probably due to poor planning - but it still happens) like add an additional parameter, or stich a parameter from a simple value to a criteria or an array. For the time being ive been jsut keeping them in a seperate file and cutting and pasting them back in when needed. I do have them tagged in a special comment string though for which i had planned to wite a batch to do this for me when i have time... but i figure theres go to be a better way...</p> Well ive been doing this with little knowledge of the pattern associated - just because im im “lazy” and didnt want to write the same lines of criteria or custom SQL code over and over. But i have a question… is there an easy way to update all these method in my model? For example i currently have 2 collections of these types of methods, one set dealing with a status type and another set dealing with timestamps. Ive noticed that i need to refactor these to make minor adjustments (this is probably due to poor planning - but it still happens) like add an additional parameter, or stich a parameter from a simple value to a criteria or an array. For the time being ive been jsut keeping them in a seperate file and cutting and pasting them back in when needed. I do have them tagged in a special comment string though for which i had planned to wite a batch to do this for me when i have time… but i figure theres go to be a better way…

]]> by: Krof Drakula http://symfony.sopca.com/2007/01/05/making-your-life-easier-with-factory-design-patterns/#comment-4 Sun, 07 Jan 2007 21:36:08 +0000 http://symfony.sopca.com/2007/01/05/making-your-life-easier-with-factory-design-patterns/#comment-4 <p>True, but the whole point in creating specialized Peer methods is in simplifying the functions used while making them more verbose when used in an action.</p> <p>But, it all depends on the user's preferences... Your method probably applies to more advanced and complex queries where using the Criteria object passed into the function makes it easier to handle.</p> <p>Either way, good point.</p> True, but the whole point in creating specialized Peer methods is in simplifying the functions used while making them more verbose when used in an action.

But, it all depends on the user’s preferences… Your method probably applies to more advanced and complex queries where using the Criteria object passed into the function makes it easier to handle.

Either way, good point.

]]> by: Marc http://symfony.sopca.com/2007/01/05/making-your-life-easier-with-factory-design-patterns/#comment-3 Sun, 07 Jan 2007 20:01:33 +0000 http://symfony.sopca.com/2007/01/05/making-your-life-easier-with-factory-design-patterns/#comment-3 <p>I tend to add an optional Criteria parameter too. So instead of creating a new Criteria object the method will use the one that's provided. Basically you want to provide default values without limiting the existing features.</p> <p>For anbody that wants more information about Design Patterns check http://www.phppatterns.com/</p> I tend to add an optional Criteria parameter too. So instead of creating a new Criteria object the method will use the one that’s provided. Basically you want to provide default values without limiting the existing features.

For anbody that wants more information about Design Patterns check http://www.phppatterns.com/

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