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Assuming that you want to return data from related tables, you should either add queries with joins to one Zend_Db_Table or use Zend_Db_Table_Relationships to fetch associated data. The benefit of using Joins is that you will only do one query over many when using Relationships. The drawback is that joined tables wont return Zend_Db_Table_Row objects (iirc), but since you are going to map them onto your Domain objects anyway, it's not that much of an issue.

Structurally, you can do like I suggested in How to change Zend_Db_Table name within a Model to insert in multiple tables. Whether you create a Gateway of Gateways or simply aggregate the Table Gateways in the DataMapper directly is really up to you. Just compose them as you see fit.

Assuming that you want to return data from related tables, you should either add queries with joins to one Zend_Db_Table or use Zend_Db_Table_Relationships to fetch associated data. The benefit of using Joins is that you will only do one query over many when using Relationships. The drawback is that joined tables wont return Zend_Db_Table_Row objects (iirc), but since you are going to map them onto your Domain objects anyway, it's not that much of an issue.

Structurally, you can do like I suggested in How to change Zend_Db_Table name within a Model to insert in multiple tables. Whether you create a Gateway of Gateways or simply aggregate the Table Gateways in the DataMapper directly is really up to you. Just compose them as you see fit.

Assuming that you want to return data from related tables, you should either add queries with joins to one Zend_Db_Table or use Zend_Db_Table_Relationships to fetch associated data.

Assuming that you want to return data from related tables, you should either add queries with joins to one Zend_Db_Table or use Zend_Db_Table_Relationships to fetch associated data. The benefit of using Joins is that you will only do one query over many when using Relationships. The drawback is that joined tables wont return Zend_Db_Table_Row objects (iirc), but since you are going to map them onto your Domain objects anyway, it's not that much of an issue.

Structurally, you can do like I suggested in How to change Zend_Db_Table name within a Model to insert in multiple tables. Whether you create a Gateway of Gateways or simply aggregate the Table Gateways in the DataMapper directly is really up to you. Just compose them as you see fit.

Assuming that you want to return data from related tables, you should either add queries with joins to one Zend_Db_Table or use Zend_Db_Table_Relationships to fetch associated data.

Assuming that you want to return data from related tables, you should either add queries with joins to one Zend_Db_Table or use Zend_Db_Table_Relationships to fetch associated data.