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In one sentence: I've had a read around and if I'm not mistaken this issue is called "object relational impedance mismatch" and I would love to know a good solution to it within Yii. I'm planning to build an application that goes beyond having the typical "user", "comment", "page", "file" database where you have comparatively straight forward models for each table (like in the book). One of the problems I am trying to solve looks something like this: I have several levels of inheritance and I have no idea what the best way is to models that work with Yii. There is http://www.yi
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Hi, I was hoping someone might have some experience using model inheritance in Yii. So far, I've only seen single table inheritance solutions (a la http://www.yiiframework.com/forum/index.php/topic/12775-unified-relational-model-into-one/page__p__63052#entry63052 and http://www.yiiframework.com/forum/index.php/topic/12978-class-table-inheritance/page__p__135262#entry135262). In practice, my requirements are only for a single level of inheritance. But in principle, the method prompts reservations. Before deciding on Yii as the framework, I spent a significant amount of time deciding
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I have a MySQL database model where I have different types of users, each having common field names, like 'username', 'password', 'first_name', 'last_name', etc. etc. I've designed it so that these common fields are stored in a 'base' table called 'users' and specific fields that apply to each type of user are stored in derived 'sub-tables' for each type of user. Here is what it looks like: I know that this is a better design than having the 'common' fields stored in every 'user' table. The problem I'm having is I'm trying to figure out how I'm going insert a new user. What
