[Deprecated] DMZ 1.6.2 (DataMapper OverZealous Edition)

[eluser]selfkill[/eluser]
For anyone who needs to have a different class and table names, I've found a somewhat hacky solution that has worked so far.

For example, I usually like to name my model classes with a "_model" at the end, so they don't muck up the namespace. So for a model named User_model with a table name of "users" I would do:

Code:

class User_model extends DataMapper {
    public $model = 'user';
    public $table = 'users';

...
}

If User_model has a relationship with another model named Group_model, I do this:

User_model:

Code:

class User_model extends DataMapper {
    public $model = 'user';
    public $table = 'users';

    public $has_one = array(
        'group' => array('class' => 'Group_model')
    );
...
}

Group_model:

Code:

class Group_model extends DataMapper {
    public $model = 'group';
    public $table = 'groups';

    public $has_many = array(
        'user' => array('class' => 'User_model')
    );
...
}

I haven't had a chance to test this a lot, but so far this seems to work. If it is a viable solution, perhaps it should be added to the FAQ because I had to do a lot of Googling to figure this out. As a feature request, I would like it if there was one simple way of specifying a different class name from a table instead of doing it like this. Until then, this seems to be the only way of going about it.