Spot PHP ORM

For RDBMS (Currently only has a MySQL adapter)

Connecting to a Database

The Spot\Config object stores and references database connections by name. Create a new instance of Spot\Config and add database connections with DSN strings so Spot can establish a database connection.

// MySQL
$cfg = new \Spot\Config();
$adapter = $cfg->addConnection('test_mysql', 'mysql://user:password@localhost/database_name');

Accessing the Mapper

Since Spot follows the DataMapper design pattern, you will need a mapper instance for working with object Entities and database tables.

$mapper = new \Spot\Mapper($cfg);

Since you have to have access to your mapper anywhere you use the database, most people create a helper method to create a mapper instance once and then return the same instance when required again. Such a helper method might look something like this:

function get_mapper() {
    static $mapper;
    if($mapper === null) {
        $mapper = new \Spot\Mapper($cfg);
    }
    return $mapper;
}

Creating Entities

Entity classes can be named and namespaced however you want to set them up within your project structure. For the following examples, the Entities will just be prefixed with an Entity namespace for easy psr-0 compliant autoloading.

namespace Entity;

class Post extends \Spot\Entity
{
    protected static $_datasource = 'posts';

    public static function fields()
    {
        return array(
            'id' => array('type' => 'int', 'primary' => true, 'serial' => true),
            'title' => array('type' => 'string', 'required' => true),
            'body' => array('type' => 'text', 'required' => true),
            'status' => array('type' => 'int', 'default' => 0, 'index' => true),
            'date_created' => array('type' => 'datetime')
        );
    }

    public static function relations()
    {
        return array(
            // Each post entity 'hasMany' comment entites
            'comments' => array(
                'type' => 'HasMany',
                'entity' => 'Entity_Post_Comment',
                'where' => array('post_id' => ':entity.id'),
                'order' => array('date_created' => 'ASC')
            )
        );
    }
}

Built-in Field Types

All the basic field types are built-in with all the default functionality provided for you:

• string
• int
• float/double/decimal
• boolean
• text
• date
• datetime
• timestamp
• year
• month
• day

Registering Custom Field Types

If you want to register your own custom field type with custom functionality on get/set, have a look at the clases in the Spot\Type namespace, make your own, and register it in Spot\Config:

$this->typeHandler('string', '\Spot\Type\String');

Relation Types

Entity relation types are:

• HasOne
• HasMany
• HasManyThrough

Finders (Mapper)

The main finders used most are all to return a collection of entities, and first or get to return a single entity matching the conditions.

all(entityName, [conditions])

Find all entityName that matches the given conditions and return a Spot\Entity\Collection of loaded Spot\Entity objects.

// Conditions can be the second argument
$posts = $mapper->all('Entity\Post', array('status' => 1));

// Or chained using the returned `Spot\Query` object - results identical to above
$posts = $mapper->all('Entity\Post')->where(array('status' => 1));

Since a Spot\Query object is returned, conditions and other statements can be chained in any way or order you want. The query will be lazy-executed on interation or count, or manually by ending the chain with a call to execute().

first(entityName, [conditions])

Find and return a single Spot\Entity object that matches the criteria.

$post = $mapper->first('Entity\Post', array('title' => "Test Post"));