You can retrieve related records by the very same {{Doctrine_Record}} methods you've already propably used for accessing record properties. When accessing related record you just simply use the class names.
<code type="php">
print $user->Email['address'];
print $user->Phonenumber[0]->phonenumber;
print $user->Group[0]->name;
</code>
+++ Updating related records
You can update the related records by calling save for each related object / collection individually or by calling save on the object that owns the other objects. You can also call {{Doctrine_Connection::flush}} which saves all pending objects.
You can delete related records individually be calling {{delete()}} on each record. If you want to delete a whole record graph just call delete on the owner record.
<code type="php">
$user->Email->delete();
$user->Phonenumber[3]->delete();
// deleting user and all related objects:
$user->delete();
</code>
+++ Working with associations
+++ Creating related records
Accessing related records in Doctrine is easy: you can use exactly the same getters and setters as for the record properties.
You can use any of the three ways above, however the last one is the recommended one for array portability purposes.
<code type="php">
$user->Email;
$user->get('Email');
$user['Email'];
</code>
When accessing a one-to-one related record that doesn't exist, Doctrine automatically creates the object. So for example the following code is possible:
<code type="php">
$user = new User();
$user->name = 'some user';
$user->Email->address = 'some@one.info';
// saves the user and the associated email
$user->save();
</code>
When accessing one-to-many related records, Doctrine creates a Doctrine_Collection for the related component. Lets say we have users and phonenumbers and their relations is one-to-many. You can add phonenumbers easily as shown above:
<code type="php">
$user = new User();
$user->name = 'some user';
$user->Phonenumber[]->phonenumber = '123 123';
$user->Phonenumber[]->phonenumber = '456 123';
$user->Phonenumber[]->phonenumber = '123 777';
// saves the user and the associated phonenumbers
$user->save();
</code>
+++ Retrieving related records
You can retrieve related records by the very same {{Doctrine_Record}} methods you've already propably used for accessing record properties. When accessing related record you just simply use the class names.
<code type="php">
print $user->Email['address'];
print $user->Phonenumber[0]->phonenumber;
print $user->Group[0]->name;
</code>
+++ Updating related records
You can update the related records by calling save for each related object / collection individually or by calling save on the object that owns the other objects. You can also call {{Doctrine_Connection::flush}} which saves all pending objects.
You can delete related records individually be calling {{delete()}} on each record. If you want to delete a whole record graph just call delete on the owner record.
