Hi all,

I'm fairly new to the Zend framework (not to PHP though). After reading and coding a lot experimenting with Zend_Translate and the MVC capabilitiet and wanted to start with the DB oportunities. But I can't seem to find some examples to go for an ORM approach using DB's.

I could be totally wrong, but as I said, I'm fairly new to the Zend framwork and at the same time, I'm learning Ruby On Rails so I thought things like ORM and Active Record would be the same in both framworks.

So, hopefully a good soul can help my troubled mind

Thx in advance

As far as I know there are no ORM in ZF. Personally I use propel 1.3 (propel.phpdb.org) and it works just fine together with ZF.

Thats to bad I think. ORM functionality would be top of the bill and would give more web developers a push in the back to use PHP for their dynamic web apps.

Becouse I have seen a change in this matter. A lot of companies prefere .NET and even ruby on rails above PHP. So Zend still has a long way to go with the framework.

Actually ZF has ann ORM - Zend_Db_Table, but this is not an implementation of Active record as it is with rails, but Table/Row data gateway design pattern.
Also, because ZF is a component framework using some of the existing solutions is very easy. Just stick doctrine or propel in you lib directory and you have an ActiveRecord based ORM solution.

(not 100% sure, but about 99% )

Regards

I've created an ORM, it's not beautiful but it serves my purposes: Any1 got a quick and dirty ORM for 1.5?

Vladev beat me too it, but here's some further reading in case you want to be able tell your design patterns apart:

P of EAA: Table Data Gateway
P of EAA: Row Data Gateway
P of EAA: Active Record
Object-relational mapping - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

There has been some talk about adding an active record implementaiton in the framework, but I don't see how the lack of active record should keep anyone from not building a robust application with ZF.

And for all the praise rails has recieved lately, many of its design pattern implementations are not ideal, or even an example of best practice. Its a great framework, don't get me wrong, but Zend is not going to be swayed by what the cool kids are doing. The vision they have for ZF - and the approach they are taking with coding to that vision - is quite deliberate. This means that once ZF finally matures, it will be one hell of a force to be reckoned with - in my opinion.

If you want a rails like experience, try CakePHP (which I also like).

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Here is a tutorial/write up I did on a very simple ORM I wrote for 1.5

Zend_Db_Table with Normalized Tables Joshteam’s Weblog

Maybe you'll be interested by this proposal : Zend_Generator_Orm