RapidDataMapper, a new Object-Relational-Mapper

[eluser]m4rw3r[/eluser]
@All:

Thanks for the appreciation!

@helmutbjorg:

First: The data objects are not models, they are usually just data containers with some convenience methods for application specific tasks, eg. generating an image path.
But you can make them into whatever you like (you can even make them into some kind of ActiveRecord-ish data object, but that might not really be optimal ).

So the reason they aren't stored in app/models is that they do not behave like CI models. Unless you make them so, but that would require a lot of unnecessary code compared to when you just have create a normal CI model which uses the data objects.

Second: And the reason I use an app specific mapper cache: What would happen if you share the mapper cache between two apps and they have different settings for the same class name?

Third: The reason you get that error is because RapidDataMapper cannot find the descriptor, it may be because the CI specific autoloader (MY_Loader::load_data_object, added in My_Loader::initRDM) is not loaded (or it can also be so that the class name is not correctly spelled (and the filename should be lowercase, but that won't matter on mac)).

Four: The reason I changed from underscore_separated_methods to camelCaseMethods is that a lot of other PHP projects prefer to use camelCase. I still use underscore_separated_variable_names, but that is only internally in the classes. Another reason is that it requires less keystrokes to write.