[Deprecated] DMZ 1.5.3 (DataMapper OverZealous Edition)

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DataMapper OverZealous Edition 1.5.3

DataMapper (DM) is an Object-Relational Mapper that builds on ActiveRecord. Data is loaded from database tables into objects, and relationships can be managed through simple, easy-to-read functions.

DataMapper OverZealous Edition (DMZ) adds several important features to DM, enhancing it's usage, usually without requiring any code changes.

To install DMZ over DataMapper, the (fairly simple) upgrade process is described here.

DMZ offers these features and more over the original DataMapper:
• In-table foreign keys
• Multiple relationships to the same model
• Better self references
• Add fields from a related model into one query
• Update, view, and query extra columns on join tables
• A shareable extension mechanism, including:
• Easy creation of HTML forms,
• Processing posted input,
• Converting to-and-from JSON, CSV, and arrays, and
• Query caching

Version 1.5.3:
Recommended for a few minor bugfixes, and one semi-major one with include_related.

Core Changes
• Modified the way _to_object and query processing works, significantly, by merging all query processing code into one new function (_process_query).

Bug Fixes
• Fixed bug that completely broke include_required's ability to automatically add all fields.
• Fixed bugs with get_rules not being called correctly for related queries and validate->get() queries.
• Invalid relationship queries now show an error instead of silently failing.
• Fixed typo in Troubleshooting where the word 'related' was supposed to be 'required'.

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