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Help me to understand models - El Forum - 12-21-2011
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Hi - I'm new to MVC, I understand the approach, but I'm getting confused with models and database interaction in general.
I understand that models act as the db interaction layer - however, how does this apply when creating your own libraries. Should db interaction within a library be abstracted out to a model, or should it encapsulate that interaction within the library itself?
Also, I've been poking through 'models' I've found on Github to get some understanding - and notice some developers have methods in their models that do no db interaction at all - such as password generation.
Please can you help me understand when/where to use a model, and when to decide with methods to put in it, and which belong in a library/alternative.
Thanks for your time.