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PHP Objects, Patterns, and Practice, Third Edition
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PHP Objects, Patterns, and Practice, Third Edition

by Matt Zandstra
June 2010
Intermediate to advanced
536 pages
16h 52m
English
Apress
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CHAPTER 13 DATABASE PATTERNS
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Figure 13–5.
Identity Map
The main trick with an Identity Map is, pretty obviously, identifying objects. This means that you
need to tag each object in some way. There are a number of different strategies you can take here. The
database table key that all objects in the system already use is no good because the ID is not guaranteed
to be unique across all tables.
You could also use the database to maintain a global key table. Every time you created an object,
you would iterate the key table’s running total and associate the global key with the object in its own
row. The overhead of this is relatively slight, ...
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