[UPHPU] ORM

[John David Anderson]

On Nov 17, 2006, at 4:20 PM, Alvaro Carrasco wrote:

> John David Anderson wrote:
>> The other thing I detest is XML configuration. If I ever have to  
>> define my tables, I think that's retarded. It only adds to the  
>> maintenance level for the app.
> Yeah... not everybody likes xml configuration.
>
> I personally have never had to create a propel configuration from  
> scratch, i use the provided tools that will generate it from an  
> existing schema, and will also grab any foreign key constraints  
> defined on the database, and use them to create relationships in  
> the objects.

Yeah, but every time there is a schema change, you need to regenerate  
the XML, right? That's what I'm talking about when I say that things  
like this add to the maintenance of an application.

> Propel is very flexible and works well with other code. I currently  
> use it on my own framework, and it is also used by the Symfony  
> framework.
> It is also more of a Data Mapper than an Active Record... so, more  
> flexible but little more complex to set up.

That, and you lose all the free functionality of active record type  
classes. :) I think you can chalk this one up to "to each his own"  
though.

-- John