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Location of model classes

Hi all,

In the official documentation of Models:

A model is a class that extends from Phalcon\Mvc\Model. It must be placed in the models directory.

Why should it be in "models" directory? Can this be overridden?

I have a structure like:

\MyAppNamespace\User\Model.php \MyAppNamespace\ObjectA\Model.php \MyAppNamespace\ObjectB\Model.php

I don't group my application models together.

Besides, Phalcon\Mvc\Model\Manager should not even concern itself with the location of classes. It's a task of autoloader.

Any thoughts?

Thanks, Temuri

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It's just convention. You are free to load your models almost everywhere you want, but in this case you must add (register) this places with Phalcon\Loader()



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Thanks, Vladimir.

So, to be able to load my models in the case above, I should explicitely define three namespaces for the loader:

$loader->registerNamespaces([ 'MyAppNamespace\User' => APP_DIR . '/MyAppNamespace/User', 'MyAppNamespace\ObjectA' => APP_DIR . '/MyAppNamespace/ObjectA', 'MyAppNamespace\ObjectB' => APP_DIR . '/MyAppNamespace/ObjectB', ]);

Did I understand you correctly?



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yep, it should work