ORM implementation

[ivanmar]

First I want to thank you all for a great project and code.
This is actualy database question. I have spent a lot of time in research of technology compatibile with php in order to find best dev env for our planed erp app. It happened that you implemented almost all my research resaults. My question is:
Can this project benefits on implementation of ORM (Doctrine)? Have you ever think of it and can you share your findings in short.
I think it has a lot of benefits (separate logic, other databases, optimised query...)

[nelius]

Short answer: Yes!

When we started, there was only active-record stuff in Zend Framework, which is more than unsuitible for us. At this point we thought we might implement some kind of ORM and Shema Processor to contribute this to ZF.

In the menatime ZF chose Doctrine as faforite ORM. Unfortunally we havn't found time to evaluate and maybe migrate to this.

If you could help in this process, it would be great!

[ivanmar]

Thanks for the answer.
I will need some time and will post progress results on this forum.
Probably it would be good idea to wait for Doctrine 2 (stable April 2010)or al least beta1

[lkneschke]

Just a short hint. Zend Framework 2.0 will probably have Doctrine 2.0 support too.

[nelius]

Definitly! It would make no sense to go with 1.x version.

One goal for us with doctrine 2 would be to describe all our models in a DDD approach e.g. by xml. With this generic descriptions we could autogenerate most of our backends for server AND client.

At the moment we our model definintions have nothing to do with our schema definitions. This is hard on server side, but makes offline support in the client even harder.

Once we describe our schemas with DDD in Doctrine, we can directly start (or find existing) ORM for javascirpt based on the same definitions

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Cornelius

[dupko]

Just a short hint. Zend Framework 2.0 will probably have Doctrine 2.0 support too.

Thats good