Interface: MapBuilder  - X-Ref

MapBuilders are classes that construct a model of a database at runtime.

MapBuilders support a single database, so this class essentially serves as
a wrapper around the DatabaseMap class.  This interface can be used for any
class that needs to construct a runtime database model; by default in Propel
the MapBuilder.tpl generates a class for your datamodel that implements this
interface and re-creates your database using the DatabaseMap, TableMap,
ColumnMap, and ValidatorMap classes.

GENERAL NOTE
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The propel.map classes are abstract building-block classes for modeling
the database at runtime.  These classes are similar (a lite version) to the
propel.engine.database.model classes, which are build-time modeling classes.
These classes in themselves do not do any database metadata lookups, but instead
are used by the MapBuilder classes that were generated for your datamodel. The
MapBuilder that was created for your datamodel build a representation of your
database by creating instances of the DatabaseMap, TableMap, ColumnMap, etc.
classes. See propel/templates/om/php5/MapBuilder.tpl and the classes generated
by that template for your datamodel to further understand how these are put
together.