Blog model or Create_Blog model for MVC framework

Question

I am building a blog based on a self-rolled MVC structure. I want to build my own, not used a 3rd party.

What is the best way to handle the creation of a new blog? Heres two options i can see...which is better, or is there something i haven't thought of?

1. Instantiate a blank (doesn't go fetch blog info from db) Blog model, set all the values for the new blog, and then call something like $blog->create() which will do an INSERT instead of UPDATE

2. Have a separate class just for the creation of blog which upon creation returns the new blog object.

What do you think? How do you normally go about the creation process?

Answer 1

I'd go with 1 personally. There's no need for a separate helper class in this case; the new keyword is entirely appropriate if you're making a new entity. When it comes to getting one from the database, however, I'd use a static method (since I wouldn't be creating anything).

Having a helper class would be a clear case of over-engineering I think.

Answer 2

If you're doing MVC, you should have a controller which maps the blog input from the view into a Blog model object. You could have a helper class do this, but it probably won't be very complicated, so I'd say go with option 1 and have your controller just create the new persistent Blog object.