Gii Model Generation - Generate as Base Classes?

Yii 1.1 General Discussion
1

I love the code generation that Gii offers, but have a couple questions.

  1. In an agile workflow I might change my data schema several times on the same table. Would it be good policy to have Gii generate a base class [UserBase] and then inherit from that class [User] so that I can have Gii pave and recreate the base class without losing any of my domain logic? Are there any major drawbacks with this approach?



class User extends UserBase

{

	public static function model($className=__CLASS__)

	{

		return parent::model($className);

	}

	

	public function OtherFunctionality()

	{

	}	

}
  1. Is there a way to run Gii against all tables or a list of tables in the database instead of one at a time?

Just started with Yii and really like what it has to offer. My apologies if these questions are covered somewhere, but I wasn’t able to find it.

2

  1. Looks OK but not for relatively small apps.

  2. Use *.

3

I’ve altered ModelCode.php and the associated index to add “Class Suffix” so that you can optionally generate a class suffix for each item. How do I get this to the Yii developers and give back to the community?

4

I added a patch to google code, issue 2064.

I’m not allowed to link yet. Isn’t that just great?

5

Thanks for contribution. Will check it.

6

On large projects db changes occur quite frequently, by using base files you can update models on demand without blowing out the customized business logic.

A brilliant and important capability for large projects! Thanks to woil for implementing it, hopefully the patch gets accepted.