SitePoint Forums - Data Access Object design question data access object, data access gateway object In designing a DAO for a database, I created objects for each table, these objects inherit from a base data object class. The base class contains some basic generic validation and house keeping methods. The derived class is intended to represent a single record from a datasource. Like other DAO examples I've seen, this class has methods for retrieving and acting on single records By schmilblickin Public bookmarkswith dagodao