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models and libraries - El Forum - 10-20-2010
[eluser]Unknown[/eluser]
hi, im still a newbie so pardon my question, i was wondering whats the clear difference between models and libraries? is it best practice if i load a model in another model? or is this a sign that i should put this functionality into the library?
models and libraries - El Forum - 10-21-2010
[eluser]WanWizard[/eluser]
Technically, there is no difference.
From an MVC point of view, libraries contain your reusable methods, models the methods that deal with I/O. There's nothing against using models in other models. If you use an ORM for example, a model is mapped to a table, so you will always use models in models...