Working with Models (Advanced)

Working with Models (Advanced)

Hydration Modes

As mentioned previously, resultsets are collections of complete objects, this means that every returned result is an object representing a row in the database. These objects can be modified and saved again to persistence:

use Store\Toys\Robots;

$robots = Robots::find();

// Manipulating a resultset of complete objects
foreach ($robots as $robot) {
    $robot->year = 2000;

    $robot->save();
}

Sometimes records are obtained only to be presented to a user in read-only mode, in these cases it may be useful to change the way in which records are represented to facilitate their handling. The strategy used to represent objects returned in a resultset is called ‘hydration mode’:

use Phalcon\Mvc\Model\Resultset;
use Store\Toys\Robots;

$robots = Robots: