I have started using OOP in PHP recently. For every model, I create two classes. One class for read operations and another Manager class for all the create / update / delete operations. For example,
<?php
// This is a sample class, just to convey the idea
class Image {
public static function loadById() {}
public static function loadByName() {}
public static function search() {}
public function __construct () {}
public function __get () {}
public function getData() {}
public function getRating() {}
public function getSimilar() {}
public function getRelatedNews() {}
}
class ImageManager extends Image {
public function __construct() {}
public function __set() {}
public function remove() {}
public function update() {}
public function save() {}
private function updateSomethingElse() {}
}
?>
The reason I separated this into two classes was that I thought it was a bit more secure, since it did not expose the C/U/D methods to a normal user. Also, I thought this might be faster / memory efficient since I am loading only the smaller class for 95% of the requests. But now I think these reasons are too insignificant for maintaining two files.
Is this a bad practice? Normally, the Manager classes are loaded only during admin operations. User actions rarely update the database (except maybe during a rating operation, or a cron job for updating view count). Should I combine both the classes into the Image class.?
