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Phalcon Models

Model consists of information or data of the application. It manipulates the data by managing the rules. It is found under directory PhalconMvcModel which remain same for all basic application.

It provides following services:

• Database Independence
• CRUD functionality
• Advanced finding capabilities
• Ability to relate models

Below are the lists of some features which can be Enable/Disable specific feature:

Option	Description	Default
astCache	Enables/Disables callbacks, hooks and event notifications from all the models.	null
cacheLevel		3
castOnHydrate		false
columnRenaming	Enables/Disables the column renaming.	true
disableAssignSetters	Allow disabling setters in your model.	false
enableImplicitJoins		true
enableLiterals		true
events	Enables/Disables callbacks, hooks and event notifications from all the models.	true
exceptionOnFailedSave	Enables/Disables throwing an exception when there is a failed save().	false
lateStateBinding	Enables/Disables late state binding of the PhalconMvcModel::cloneResultMap()method.	false
notNullValidations	The ORM automatically validate the not null columns present in the mapped table	true
parserCache		null
phqlLiterals	Enables/Disables literals in the PHQL parser	true
uniqueCacheId		3
updateSnapshotOnSave	Enables/Disables updating snapshots on save().	true

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Creating Models

Model is a class that extends PhalconMvcModel. In creating models, initialize() method is used which is called only once during the request.

But if we want to perform initialize task for every instance we uses onConstruct() method.