CodeIgniter, models, and ORM, how to deal with this?

Question

I\'m starting with CodeIgniter and after several hours diving in Google I\'m a bit confused.

Let\'s try to explain my question with a easy example: I have a table \'car

Answer 1

For future Googlers, here is a tutorial I wrote up about how to integrate CodeIgniter 2 with Doctrine 2.

Let me know if you have any issues.