Kohana 3.2 ORM Does not contain model info

Question

I'm working with Kohana 3.2 and have the following code in my controller.

  $Blog_Post = new Model_Blogpost();

  $Blog_Post->where('id', '=', 1);
  $Blog_Post->find();

  $content = $Blog_Post->content;

I Currently have 3 records in my db with id's 1, 2, and 3.

$Blog_Post->content, or any other field return null. and I'm not sure why.

Answer 1

1. Use ORM::factory('blogpost', $id) or new Model_Blogpost($id) if you need an object with PK == $id.

2. Check your model after loading.

  if $Blog_Post->loaded()
  {
       // it works!
  }
  else
  {
       // record not found
  }

If record not found, you can see last DB query with $Blog_Post->last_query()

UPD. From comments. Your model will not work with this modifications. Note that ORM data stored in $_object property, and $Blog_Post->content is just a shortcut for $Blog_Post->_object['content'] via __get() method. Of course, if you define public $content property, $Blog_Post->content will return NULL value instead of using DB data.

There is no reason for defining model fields as properties. If you need IDE hints, just use PHPDOC.

Answer 2

At the firm I work for we were looking into upgrading to 3.2 very recently. However, in our evaluation I don't recall seeing a difference in ORM handling methods. Yours above looks like it should be something like this:

  $Blog_Post = ORM::factory('blogpost')->where('id', '=', 1)->find();

  $content = $Blog_Post->content;

Assuming your table is called blogposts, of course. I may be wrong about that and if I am, can you link to the documentation that shows this kind of model interaction?