Tag Archives: SQL

Don’t be afraid to NOT use the ORM…

I’ve been racking my brains the past couple of days with a Doctrine issue within a Symfony project. I was constructing a bank statement-esque page, which iterated over a “StatementEntry” table and displayed the results. Entries could either be of model Type A or model Type B, with the relevant model ID stored [...]

Finding propel objects

In the White October office we use a programing framework called Symfony for some of our projects. It provides us with well erm a framework to develop our web applications, it gives us a standard way of dealing with web requests, keeping our code in a standard set of folders and lots of handy tools [...]