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[Robert Redcay]

Though I have not worked with this library extensively, I've been 
interested in it for a while and almost used it in a recent project.

Here's what I like:
- automatically generated PHP objects to represent each table in your 
database
- these objects inherit a bunch of useful methods from the base class 
(e.g. update, edit, delete, fetch, etc.)

Here's what bothered me:
- Joins of 2 or more tables require awkward config files and don't seem 
very mature
(this may be more a problem of the "Data Object" concept than of 
DB_DataObject's actual implementation)
- One reason to use these is to avoid hard-coded SQL, but you'd 
inevitably have to hard-code SQL in these objects for complex queries.

I'm interested to here what others say...
-Rob

David Mintz wrote:

>Does anybody with any experience with the Pear DB_DataObject package have
>any opinions about it? I have just begun to RTFM and it almost reminds me
>of Java EJB container-managed entity beans -- that is, complicated. One
>wonders if the great conveniences are worth the, well, inconvenience of
>learning it and setting it all up. OTOH it looks like once you really get
>rolling you might save yourself a ton of grunt coding.
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