Good PHP ORM Library?

Answer 1

Until PHP 5.3 release don't expect to have a good ORM. It's a OO limitation of PHP.

Answer 2

Try PHP ADOdb.

I can't say it's the best, because I haven't used the others. But it's fast, it supports Memcached and caching.

And it's waaaay faster than Zend Framework's DB/Select.

Answer 3

MicroMVC has a 13 KB ORM that only relies on a 8 KB database class. It also returns all results as ORM objects themselves and uses late static binding to avoid embedding information about the current object's table and meta data into each object. This results in the cheapest ORM overhead there is.

It works with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQLite.

Answer 4

Look at http://code.google.com/p/lworm/ . It is a really simple, but powerful, lightweight ORM system for PHP. You can also easily extend it, if you want.

Answer 5

I just started with Kohana, and it seems the closest to Ruby on Rails without invoking all the complexity of multiple configuration files like with Propel.

Answer 6

I have had great experiences with Idiorm and Paris. Idiorm is a small, simple ORM library. Paris is an equally simple Active Record implementation built on Idiorm. It's for PHP 5.2+ with PDO. It's perfect if you want something simple that you can just drop into an existing application.