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RageZ
RageZ

Reputation: 27323

huge zend framework project and where to place models

We have a huge Zend Framework project, it's basically a website in 4 different languages and with a fair amount of pages. Usually my application handle 10~15 database tables and probably 5/6 controllers so I place all my model under applications/models.

The problem with that project doing the same would make copy the same models in each modules and probably make a lot of duplicate code and make the maintenance being difficult. I am wondering if it would wise to puts the models under library?

How do you people are doing in such case? some solutions, I am thinking of in my order of preference

Upvotes: 1

Views: 331

Answers (2)

adlawson
adlawson

Reputation: 6431

This is how I typically structure my application, although I have stored them in the library folder in other projects. I prefer this structure over storing them in the library as Models are application specific, whereas my library is used to store application-less(?) classes (typical Auth, Filters etc)

/application
    /models
        // Models
    /modules
        /default
            /controllers
                // Default Controllers
        /admin
            /controllers
                // Admin Controllers
/library
    // Library Classes

Upvotes: 1

Alex Howansky
Alex Howansky

Reputation: 53636

I keep all library code, including models, under /library. IMO, that's what it's there for. Then, if you need to share libraries (incl. models) between apps, you can do so with a single symlink or git submodule:

Your local app:

/myapp/application/
/myapp/public/
/myapp/library/
/myapp/library/MyApp/

Pulling in external dependencies:

/myapp/library/OtherLib (git submodule of a separate repo)
/myapp/library/ExtraLib (symlink to /path/to/ExtraLib/)

Or:

set_include_path(get_include_path() . ':/path/to/ExtraLib')

If you separate models from the library, you'd have two mount points for every dependency.

Upvotes: 3

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