Doctrine does the proxy evaluation based on loaded field count. It does not evaluate which fields are loaded on field-by-field basis. The reason for this is simple: performance. Field lazy-loading is very rarely needed in PHP world, hence introducing some kind of variable to check which fields are loaded would introduce unnecessary overhead to basic fetching.
Doctrine does the proxy evaluation based on loaded field count. It does not evaluate which fields are loaded on field-by-field basis. The reason for this is simple: performance. Field lazy-loading is very rarely needed in PHP world, hence introducing some kind of variable to check which fields are loaded would introduce unnecessary overhead to basic fetching.
++ Overriding the constructor
Sometimes you want to do some operations at the creation time of your objects. Doctrine doesn't allow you to override the Doctrine_Record::__construct() method but provides an alternative:
<code type="php">
class User extends Doctrine_Record
{
public function construct()
{
$this->name = 'Test Name';
$this->do_something();
}
}
</code>
The only drawback is that it doesn't provide a way to pass parameters to the constructor.
