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what is repository in doctrine?

i wonder what a repository means in doctrine?

could someone please explain?

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A repository in a term used by many ORMs (Object Relational Mappers), doctrine is just one of these.

It means the place where our data can be accessed from, a repository of data. This is to distinguish it from a database as a repository does not care how its data is stored.

See the Repository Pattern from Martin Fowlers "Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture".

Oded  2010-04-20 11:18:19

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