How to call the class that has access to the database?

Question

Programming

Good evening.
In MVC, this is often done by the model. But what about in the general case? Now I use the Repository for this, and the fact that the database is the repository remains an implementation detail (something tells me that this solution is far-fetched and semantically incorrect). At the same time, Yii has ActiveRecord, which is bound to a table and is called a model by many.
So what is usually a class whose authority is to access the database to get / save certain entities, for example, User? And what is the right thing to do, to bind such classes to an entity or to a table?
Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Yii have an ActiveRecord that is bound to a table

But he does this through several abstractions... In Yii2 itself, https://github.com/yiisoft/yii2/blob/master/framew...
is responsible for working with the database
You seem to be working correctly through the repository.
Here is a good and popular pattern that solves your case:
design-pattern.ru/patterns/data-mapper.html