In 1.0 I've overloaded the _fetch method to join tables to create an ORM-like app. I only really need this in one place so I don't wan't to change my app to Doctrine.

What I have is in theory simpe:

Customer database - contains customer id
-- Company database - contains company specific data
-- Person database - contains person specific data

Since the customer id is the same this seems like a good way of doing it. All I do is a join() where the company or person data are stored in a different var which is then also searched when the __get, save etc methods are called. Worked nicely until the _fetch got fundamentally changed...

I've looked at different ORM proposals but all efforts seem to have died off...

Pleaze share with me your dirty hack on how to solve this until the devs come up with an orm.

Thanks!