WE use XML here to store the values, however our requirements also add the
ability to use mutiple languages so its a little more complex.
For personal projects I store the various data like this into a
system_option table as text (1,Male;2,Female;) and then have a common
routine that grabs the required bits of info from this table and passes it
thru a framework when creating the appropriate html. The framework is a
series fucntions that get passed the various bits of data (like what the
field type is (date, text, radio etc), the value from the db, the
system_option value for that element and combines it all into an html
snippet that is then shown to the user.
Bastien
From: Vignesh M P N <manivig@xxxxxxx>
To: php-db@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Database abstract layer
Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2006 15:19:26 -0600
Hi
I am facing a common problem which any developer querying the database
would
face.
In our web applications wherever we have more than one standard options for
a field, we usually denote them as integers. Say, for gender, we store it
as
1 or 2, but we display that as male or female in the user interface. So far
I had been handling this translation in the presentation layer ie., just
before displaying the data in the table, I check if the retrieved is "1"
and
then translate it to "male" and so on. But this becomes clumsy when we have
lots of such standard options and when we need this translation in multiple
places in the application.
So now I am thinking of adding an abstract layer which does all the
querying, retrieving and translation; and then return to my presentation
layer, so that if my presentation layer just calls a function in the
database abstract layer with the required query parameters, it gets back a
resultset with the translations. I hope this is a very common problem every
developer faces.
I would like to have your guidance on this. I understand that a resultset
object is not easy to replicate. How do I make these translations and store
them back in an object and return it to the presentation layer?
Or do we have existing PHP libraries which serve this purpose? Could you
suggest me a better way of solving this problem?
Please help me on this.
Thanks
Vignesh.
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