Anyone know of a good PHP ORM that DOES NOT use PDO?

Question

I\'m building a webapp for a department on a large college campus that will eventually be run on the enterprise servers ( I use the term \'enterprise\' loosely ).

Answer 1

I suppose that every modern ORM relies on PDO as it's a standard database driver.

If you have MySQLi extension enabled then you should be able to write your own PDO (IIRC MySQLi supports everything that PDO does).

if (extension_loaded('pdo_mysql') == false) {
    class PDO {
        protected $connection;

        public function __construct($dsn, $username = null, $password = null, array $driver_options = array()) {
            $this->connection = new MySQLi(...);
        }
    }

    class PDOStatement { ... }
    class PDOException extends RuntimeException { ... }
}

You'll have to implement whole PDO API but at least it will works.