NYCPHP Meetup

[Mark Simko]

> Donna Marie Vincent donnamarievincent at yahoo.com 
> Tue Jul 28 12:02:09 EDT 2009 

> Sometimes it's easier to make the direct calls, sometimes not,
depending on what other data you need.

> If the table's key consists of more than one field you cannot use
JTable.

> The table class for that example is probably in
administrator/components/com_reviews/tables/reviews.php.


Yes, there is a file there, but at this point in the text of the book it
is basically empty; Just the defined /die statement.

So in this line:
$row =& JTable::getInstance('Review', 'Table');
does that refer to the review.php file in the table subdirectory. I
thought that might be a possibility, but the capitalization is wrong and
I'm on Linux where everything is case sensitive.


> I have that book, too, and didn't get it from reading the book.

So it's not just me! Thanks, I feel much better now. Do you have any
suggestions on what book I should get?

> I didn't get it until I had to do it for real.  And it's faster to do
$row->store than make db update calls.

So there  is a place for the JTable class. Thanks for the insight.

Mark