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Where do i put db ah-hoc functions?

Asked by icb01co1 in PHP Scripting Language

Hi Experts,

Im having my first real play with creating well OOP programs and Im wondering a few things about how best to do things. One of the classes I have is named "Page" which take an ID as a constructor and queries a db to set its relevent fields.  Now im feeling pretty chufed with myself because the page has a template property that loads a "template" object which is then parsed for custom tags and replaced with the result of seperate "component" classes which in turn can contain "plugins". All this guff means that that I can create web pages using global templates and simply assign reusable components or plugins which in comparison to the other rubbish ive knocked out with php is quite a step forward for me.

Now cause my page takes a id as a constructor that assumes that there is this data in the db. What im wondering is should I change this and add my ad hoc db functions to my classes. By this I mean should my page not take an id as a constructor and have several ways of building the class up i.e.

- From a db reference id
- From passed params
- From browser passed params i.e. $_GET[]

Also should my object contain all the add/edit/remove db operations? Right now all the logic in the page class is to do with constructing and displaying the page, should I mix in the db operations too or should this info be in a seperate class, or should I have a seperate simple sunction list for ad-hoc queries?

Basically what I am asking is how do you do it?
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