Tag: Doctrine

Posted by kevin
December 29, 2009

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Introduction to Doctrine’s Nested Set

A common problem requirement among developers is to store hierarchial data to a flat file database. You have probably come across the parent/child methodology whereby a table has a typical ‘parent’ column that references, you guessed it, its parent – this method is also known as adjacency list model. Querying in this way can often [...]

Posted by kevin
December 28, 2009

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Integrating CodeIgniter and Doctrine

Having used CodeIgniter over the past year or so, I came to realise some limitations with the Database library. CodeIgniter does not have a proper ORM library like a lot of other frameworks provide. With an ORM library, you have a lot more tools at your disposal to not only increase productivity but also improve [...]