Dave

here’s another question.
personally i prefer to design relational Database first then work on ORM. the reverse way did cause me a lot of problems and bad habit for RMDB design.
so do you have any plan to let Flextrine automatically generate Entities from existing Database schema? (as far as I know, Doctrine does have one feature like this)
Sorry, get lazy after using Flextrine

Tim

You are absolutely right!!! the Flextrine works pretty awesome. In fact, i intended to have more controls of back-end service and learn some knowledge of Doctrine. (consumes a lot of times, though). So i studied again your source code, pretty neat and cool!!! so right now i could focus more on the flex side programming.

thanks a lot again for this great project.

Tim

Thankyou kindly for your praise There is a Google Group for Flextrine which I think is the best place to discuss things, so I’ll paste your comment into it and we can continue this chat there!

http://groups.google.com/group/flextrine

Dave

The first thing I wanted to be able to do was custom PHP functions or rather library like the Hierarchical DoctrineExtension with its MPTT implementation. I understand I should extend FlextrineDelegate to implement a custom call and subsequently the EntityManager as well. If all goes well, I’ll write a short tut about that and if possible, contribute to your wiki.

I’m unsure about something however. You consider doctrine entities the same as VOs and therefore use public properties. I thought like that too but then I read that it is a bad practise here http://www.doctrine-project.org/projects/orm/2.0/docs/reference/best-practices/en
It refers to the proxies, not the entities themselves. But I think this feature will be used in projects to limit the requests amount. Moreover, setting public accessors gives an additional control to the modifications being made on the object. We could for instance enforce a regexp upon a setter to validate the data (ok we could do that in AS3 too) or call some other functions like a logger (we could also do this with another call in AS3). Have you got insights about this ?

I also noticed that in your wiki, int and bigint are mapped to Number in AS3. A detail but are you going to change that later on ?

At last, is there some kind of an “official” forum or something for people to discuss about Flextrine ?

Anyway this is really an exciting project and I’m looking forward to seeing more releases. Thank you.

Flextrine uses custom deserialization and serialization to deal with ArrayCollection (and other types); it was definitely one of the challenges Why don’t you just use Flextrine for your projects - you’ll get all the advantages of Flex/Doctrine2 integration without having to worry about these kinds of details!

Dave

your program looks very promising and interesting. lol
Recently i’m trying to test Doctrine2 with flex/PHP (some small projects). but get very frustrated with the new ArrayCollection in Doctrine2. Googled a lot without solution. finally i got here, which is very close to the background.
It looks u are very skillful with those Doctrine 2 and ArrayCollection stuff.
Don’t know if you mind i drop some questions here. :p
(I downloaded your Flextrine2, tried to get a clue for my issues. not yet, though)