Comments on: Ruby on Rails – Could it Replace my PHP Java Mixture?

By: Jon Wage

Jon Wage — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:23:43 +0000

Also, Doctrine is being slowly adopted by symfony. http://www.symfony-project.com

And Doctrine is participating in the google summer of code, so it should be pushed a long nicely over the summer.

If you are a php guy, I would check out php + symfony + doctrine. It is all you will ever need.

By: Guest

Guest — Sun, 16 Apr 2006 12:14:40 +0000

I would recommend using Doctrine. Doctrine is a ActiveRecord implementation and its as easy to use as RoR ActiveRecord. Doctrine doesn’t rely on code generation rather it has a compact runtime library (only about 200 kb).

Doctrine has many features missing from other solutions such as batch fetching, mixing of fetching strategies and full object query language API.

You can grab the latest version of Doctrine from:
http://svn.phpdoctrine.org

homepage: http://www.phpdoctrine.com

By: Manuel Lemos

Manuel Lemos — Thu, 15 Dec 2005 20:54:49 +0000

You may also want to take a look at Metastorage. It uses the JE WIN approach: Just Exactly What I Need. This means in practice that it does not generate bloated code. You just tell which model class functions you want to perform in your persistent objects and Metastorage generates only the code for what you ask, not more, not less. Metastorage generated code is self-contained. This means that it does not rely on fat base classes nor it uses an external object persistence runtime library. Metastorage generates all the code you need. That code is small and fast. Take a look at the code generated by the sample project inside metal/metastorage/projects/cms/install . Since Metastorage generates commented code, you it will be easy for you to understand.

By: Tony Spencer

Tony Spencer — Sat, 05 Nov 2005 16:24:26 +0000

Hi Maury,
No, I didn’t investigate into any other ORM solutions for PHP. My hope was that I could share my XML definitions file that I use with my Torque app with my PHP Propel version. It works but its too slow for my taste.

By: Maury

Maury — Sat, 05 Nov 2005 07:18:46 +0000

Did you try the other PHP ORM solutions listed here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object-relational_mapping? There's other one that produce more lightweight code than propel. Try POG http://www.phpobjectgenerator.com for instance.