I know about map/reduce alghoritm and its use. It's using functions that are called Mappers and Reducers, but I also find people use the word Filters. Are Filters same as Mappers or is there some significant difference? ...
In my limited experience, it seems that a common idiom is to pass objects from one layer to another using a "mapper". An ORM is one example, to go map from the Domain to the database and back. Automapper is another, which facilitates mapping from a rich domain object, into an object consumable by another layer (ViewModel, WebService. So...
Hi, is there a better way to work with ZF useing the mappers, real life objects and table_objects. This is how I do it with Zend Framework: class User_DbTable extends Zend_DB_Table_Abstract{ protected $_name = "user"; // name of the table } the user class -> user object: class User{ protected $_id; protected $_name; pr...