Doctrine and model classes

[KAIRU26]

Imagine a user table. It will then generate the classes.

Doctrine::generateModelsFromDb('models', array('doctrine'), array('generateTableClasses' => true));

class User extends BaseUser
{
}

Then we generated a skeleton doctrine_Table

class UserTable extends Doctrine_Table
{
}

In the documentation it says that.

You can place custom functions inside the User and UserTable classes to customize the functionality of your models. Below are some examples:

I do not understand the difference between these two classes, what is the role of each of them and must contain?

[kelfro]

Normally in user you add methods to your object.

It could be for example a method getAge() which, from the date of birth of your user, would directly calculate its age.

Or for example, a loc () method that would block a user account if it is wrong 3 times in his login.

In usertable you add methods which mostly involve making Doctrine_Query.

The goal in general is that methods of your usertable return a User object or a collection of User objects.

[KAIRU26]

But I do not understand why they do this:

class JobeetJobTable extends Doctrine_Table
{
  static public $types = array(
    'full-time' => 'Full time',
    'part-time' => 'Part time',
    'freelance' => 'Freelance',
  );
  public function getTypes()
  {
    return self::$types;
  }
  // ... 
}

[kelfro]

This case is also justified. You're not going to put this method in JobeetJob. In JobeetJob, you getType() that you will return the type for the object. In JobeetJobTable, you getType() which returns you the different types available. Or, is what you would put it otherwise?