Kohana 3 ORM as_array return array of ORM

Question

Hi, I'm executing a simple query and want to get an array back. Based on the ORM tutorial that comes with the Kohana 3 guide, I thought I could do the following:

ORM::factory('user')->find_all()->as_array();

But that seems to give me an array of model objects (ie array( User_Model1, User_Model2 ...

Looking at the source I see I can easily fix this by hacking with the following patch.

modules/database/classes/kohana/database/result.php
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@
                        foreach ($this as $row)
                        {
-                               $results[] = $row;
+                               $results[] = $row->as_array();

Which seems to be more in line with what the user guide says:

A powerful feature of ORM is the ORM::as_array method which will return the given record as an array. If used with ORM::find_all, an array of all records will be returned. A good example of when this is useful is for a select list:

// Display a select field of usernames (using the id as values) echo Form::select('user', ORM::factory('user')->find_all()->as_array('id', 'username'));

Wondering if this is intentional, if so, why? What would be a better work around if I do want to create an array of associative arrays?

Answer 1

ORM has no methods like you describe. There was a select_list() method in Kohana 2.3.4, may be userguide contains wrong information from old (or future) version?

PS. And there is no reason for changing DB Result object, because $row may be any (not only ORM) class.