Model inheritance

Model inheritance in Powerorm works almost identically to the way normal class inheritance works in PHP, That means the base class should subclass EddmashPowerOrmModelModel;.

The only decision you have to make is whether you want the parent models to be models in their own right (with their own database tables), or if the parents are just holders of common information that will only be visible through the child models.

There are three styles of inheritance that are possible in PowerOrm:

• Abstract base Often, you will just want to use the parent class to hold information that you don’t want to have to type out for each child model. This class isn’t going to ever be used in isolation, so Abstract base classes are what you’re after.
• Multi-table inheritance If you’re subclassing an existing model and want each model to have its own database table, Multi-table inheritance is the way to go.
• Proxy models Finally, if you only want to modify the PHP-level behavior of a model, without changing the models fields in any way, you can use Proxy models.