Easy way to convert a Doctrine_Collection of Model classes to an array of simple objects?

Question

To clearly separate the Controller and View layers, I do not longer want to pass full objects to my views. Instead I want to pass only arrays and objects that contain the data but do not have any methods. Otherwise a view script would be able to delete Doctrine records or traverse in the object tree to data that was not intended for the view.

Answer 1

I believe $collection->toArray() should do what you want

See http://www.doctrine-project.org/documentation/manual/1_1/en/working-with-models:arrays-and-objects

Answer 2

You're doing something that is completely senseless. What's the point of that? You won't stop yourself/other programmers from illegal operations in the view layer. Maybe you won't be able to do $obj->delete(); but Doctrine_Query::create()->delete()->from('ObjectTable')->execute(); will be still available.

Pass object to the view and just don't execute such methods on them - that's what you should do.