How to get models with related models in Zend Framework 2? (relations)

Question

I have models Message and File . Message can have a lot of files (attachments).

I need to do something like:

new Select('message')->join('file', 'file.message_id = message.id', array('url'), 'left')

but I want to get Message array where every message has a property files with an array of File . How to do something like this in zf2?

Answer 1

Zf2 does not implement any ORM from the beginning, it's using Gateway pattern, you give it a request, it returns a ResultSet which is iterable, and return a ResultSetPrototype (object) or an Array for each row in the ResultSet.

If you want an ORM, you'll have to build it or use one like Doctrine 2 (which has an implementation on Zf2)

resources :

• ZF2 - Doctrine2 quick tuto
• official github
• Another tuto