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

check out GAS ORM it sounds pretty good, handy and easy to use. some features of this ORM implementation for CodeIgniter:

• Supported databases : cubrid, mssql, mysql, oci8, odbc, postgre, sqlite, sqlsrv. (including PDO, if you keep sync with CI repo)
• Support multiple database connections.
• Support multiple relationships.
• Support composite keys (for key that define relationships).
• Auto-create models from database tables and vice versa.
• Auto-synchronize models-tables by creating migrations file.
• Per-request caching.
• Self-referential and adjacency column/data (hierarchical data).
• Eager Loading to maximize your relationship queries (for performance manner).
• Various finder methods (can chained with most of CI AR) and aggregates.
• Validation and auto-mapping input collection with minimal setup.
• Hooks points to control over your model.
• Extensions to share your common function/library across your model.
• Transactions and other CI AR goodness.
• Included phpunit test suite to ensure most of API consistency.

there is one form with spark support -> so it's easy to install