http://www.theodicius.net/archives/2010/05/09/missing-the-point/ Good. Evil. Bratwurst. Tue, 17 Jan 2012 18:30:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.theodicius.net/archives/2010/05/09/missing-the-point/comment-page-1/#comment-26902 Giorgio Sironi Tue, 13 Dec 2011 13:01:16 +0000 http://www.theodicius.net/?p=383#comment-26902 Thanks for the information, I have started to explore Rails in more depth now: http://css.dzone.com/articles/rails-point-view-php-developer My preference still goes to keeping field definitions and related business logic in the same Model class, like DataMapper for Ruby does. My example on "overriding the default getter" was related to the lack of magic fields, which in PHP are implemented with the __get() method. The problem created by such features in PHP was that when a method is called or a field accessed, no one would know with certainty where the executed code would be. Thanks for the information, I have started to explore Rails in more depth now:
http://css.dzone.com/articles/rails-point-view-php-developer
My preference still goes to keeping field definitions and related business logic in the same Model class, like DataMapper for Ruby does.
My example on “overriding the default getter” was related to the lack of magic fields, which in PHP are implemented with the __get() method. The problem created by such features in PHP was that when a method is called or a field accessed, no one would know with certainty where the executed code would be.

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