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

I think php-activerecord is a very good drop-in ORM. I've used it with the Slim Framework a few times and I think it would be a great alternative to using CI's native model class. Here is some sample code and the link:

$post = new Post();
$post->title = 'My first blog post!!';
$post->author_id = 5;
$post->save();

PHP ActiveRecord