public getColumnMap (Phalcon\Mvc\ModelInterface $model) Returns the column map if any print_r($metaData->getColumnMap(new Robots()));

public getBindTypes (Phalcon\Mvc\ModelInterface $model) Returns attributes and their bind data types print_r($metaData->getBindTypes(new Robots()));

public getAutomaticUpdateAttributes (Phalcon\Mvc\ModelInterface $model) Returns attributes that must be ignored from the UPDATE SQL generation print_r($metaData->getAutomaticUpdateAttributes(new Robots()));

public getAutomaticCreateAttributes (Phalcon\Mvc\ModelInterface $model) Returns attributes that must be ignored from the INSERT SQL generation print_r($metaData->getAutomaticCreateAttributes(new Robots()));

public getAttributes (Phalcon\Mvc\ModelInterface $model) Returns table attributes names (fields) print_r($metaData->getAttributes(new Robots()));

implements Phalcon\Di\InjectionAwareInterface, Phalcon\Mvc\Model\MetaDataInterface Source on GitHub Because Phalcon\Mvc\Model requires meta-data like field names, data types, primary keys, etc. this component collect them and store for further querying by Phalcon\Mvc\Model. Phalcon\Mvc\Model\MetaData can also use adapters to store temporarily or permanently the meta-data. A standard Phalcon\Mvc\Model\MetaData can be used to query model attributes: $metaData = new \Phalcon\Mvc\Model\MetaData\Mem

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