Load model with a constructer - possible?

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Hi all, thanks for all the replies.

I think the problem was initially I was going down a rails, etc type scenario where typically one object represents 1 row in a table whereas in CI the model is just a front-end facade for the whole table *i think*.

I've resorted to returning an array of "row" objects from methods such as "find_by_description" etc as described in the manual which works fine and I'm happy with it, except it does make some of the code more "terse" as a result - but some of that is due to constraints in the language itself.

@michael the datamapper looks very interesting - is it for public consumption?