Accessing 2 different tables from same controller file - php

Question

I have successfully completed the the album table tutorial in Zend Framework 2 manual. I have implemented using tablegateway. I can see that he used only one table named "album" and hence he implemented according to that one table.
Lets say I have another table called "artist" that holds the information of each artists from that "album" table.
Now in manual, he simply uses:
$this->getAlbumTable()->fetchAll();
Now I want to do similar thing with "artists" table so that my query can be like:
$this->getArtistsTable()->fetchAll();
So what should I change or add?? I already have created the artist table in mySql with columns: Name, DOB, Country.
P.S: I am not going to use joins or anything atm. Just want to access the second table in same controller (same module).
SOLUTION:
With the help of Venca, I was able to solve this problem: here is how you should edit the factory setting for 2 tables and more.
public function getServiceConfig()
{
// Given in Manual
return array(
'factories' => array(
'Album\Model\AlbumTable' => function($sm) {
$tableGateway = $sm->get('AlbumTableGateway');
$table = new AlbumTable($tableGateway);
return $table;
},
'AlbumTableGateway' => function ($sm) {
$dbAdapter = $sm->get('Zend\Db\Adapter\Adapter');
$resultSetPrototype = new ResultSet();
$resultSetPrototype->setArrayObjectPrototype(new Album());
return new TableGateway('album', $dbAdapter, null, $resultSetPrototype);
},
// Added another table named Artist
'Album\Model\ArtistTable' => function($sm) {
$tableGateway = $sm->get('ArtistTableGateway');
$table = new AlbumTable($tableGateway);
return $table;
},
'ArtistTableGateway' => function ($sm) {
$dbAdapter = $sm->get('Zend\Db\Adapter\Adapter');
$resultSetPrototype = new ResultSet();
$resultSetPrototype->setArrayObjectPrototype(new Artist());
return new TableGateway('artist', $dbAdapter, null, $resultSetPrototype);
},
),
);
}
Now you can access both tables from your controller. Problem Solved. Day well spent.

Answer 1

According to manual
Create model
Create model table
Add factory to your module
return array(
'factories' => array(
'Album\Model\ArtistTable' => function($sm) {
$tableGateway = $sm->get('ArtistTableGateway');
$table = new ArtistTable($tableGateway);
return $table;
},
'ArtistTableGateway' => function ($sm) {
$dbAdapter = $sm->get('Zend\Db\Adapter\Adapter');
$resultSetPrototype = new ResultSet();
$resultSetPrototype->setArrayObjectPrototype(new Artist());
return new TableGateway('artist', $dbAdapter, null, $resultSetPrototype);
},
),
);