About the constants for classes and tables. There are multiple ways of to get them. First are the xPDO class methods.
$xpdo->getTableName('myObject');
This will return quoted table with prefix set for the package. Example: "my_object" and if prefix for package: "modx_my_object" for example
$xpdo->getClassName('my_table');
This will return the object name for my_table eg. myTable.
Then if you have already constructed your object with getObject for example, you can directly get values through object variables.
$obj->_table; // the table name with quotes
$obj->_class; //class name without driver postfix
But recommend to stick with xPDO methods
Also then are the non-magical methods that will come handy.
xPDO::call("objectClass", "redo", array("meep"));
You can call static method within a objectClass for example, without the 4th parameter set to true. This will actually call objectClass_driver::redo("meep"). Also will call xPDO::loadClass().
xPDO::loadClass('objectClass')
If you got derived classes from own classes, most likely you'll get error thrown for class not found. Driving the loadClass() with class you want, will load the class + the driver based class.
This is the power of "constants" with xPDO. Obviously there are xPDO::CONSTANTS but those have different meaning then.
getMany(), getOne() etc... they use the object names obviously. Thats how pretty much everything works with xPDO. But it is good to know how to get the table names also. Also if needed, xPDO has class method literal() which will strip off the quotes around table names. There are also functions for field names etc... but not gonna go there.
Throwing my 2 cents to discussion I guess.
## Edit
Forgot arbitrary query to keep up the spirits
$c = $xpdo->newQuery('lazyTickets');
$c->select($xpdo->getSelectColumns('lazyTickets', 'ld', '', array('id', 'desc')));
$c->where(array(
'id:IN' => array(1,2,3,4,5),
'lc.name:NOT LIKE' => '%lazy%'
));
$c->innerJoin('lazyClient', 'lc');
$res = $xpdo->getCollection('lazyTickets', $c);
foreach($res as $dummy) { $out[] = $dummy>toArray('', false, true); }
To get the objectNames to some IDE, not possible right now. As there is no constants like people have already noticed. But this should not be a problem really, I guess they could be added to maps. Dunno what the head chief will say about the idea
[ed. note: lazylegs last edited this post 11 years, 8 months ago.]
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