Lowercase model names

Well, I think there could be a few different ways to approach this, so let's see what we can work out...

Simpliest answer, and I will just stick with that - If you are going to be writing your queries using the above method all throughout your app, then you could do the following:

class Content extends \Phalcon\Mvc\Model
{

    public function initialize()
    {
        $this->setSource("content");
    }

}

This method is mentioned in the docs here. Actually down just a bit from the top of the link I provide. This will allow you you write your queries as you would like.

Many thanks for the reply on this. I did see this method in the docs, but as far as I can tell, it does something different. Namely that it sets use of table 'content' for model 'Content'. But that's Phalcon's default behaviour anyway - I'd use it if eg I wanted a 'Content' model that referred to a 'content_page' table.

So even when setting this, a PHQL query still expects the model name, rather than the underlying table name, so

$content = $this->modelsManager->executeQuery("SELECT id, name, url_name FROM content");

Still fails with 'PhalconException: Model 'content' could not be loaded'. But I could be missing something obvious...

Interesting... by the way the docs read, you would think that was exactly what you was looking for. Basically allowing you to use the string 'content' to access or refer to the model named 'Content. But upon further reading of the 'PHQL' docs, it appears to not be the case, but the oppisite. Sorry about that. I am not as familiar as I should be with selecting parials data from a model, so most of my queries use the basic find, findBy<name> methods most of the time.

I was going to suggest that method, but since naming your classes 'StudlyCaps' is a best practice, I did not want to suggest otherwise just for the sake of syntaxhighlighting within an IDE. Bear in mind, it will not break anything if you do decide to name your classes in all lower case.

PSR-0 states' "Alphabetic characters in vendor names, namespaces, and class names may be of any combination of lower case and upper case." PSR-1 states, *"Class names MUST be declared in StudlyCaps.".

Phalcon, thanks for confirming this - I tried it already and it seemed to work, just wasn't sure from the docs if it was specifically a bad idea (especially from a CI background where some naming conventions are enforced). But as it isn't, I'll go that route!

Thanks both for the replies...

From my point of view, you should name your class Content and your file Content.php