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 used CodeIgniter with Propel and they really mixed well. I've used like that for a while and got a few webapps working that way. Since I found a few awful ways to do it ( some included modifiying Apache's configuration!!). I decided to publish a blog post on how to do it. You can read it here.

Hope I can help!

Answer 2

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

Answer 3

i know this is quite old, but for those who are just using codeigniter now and wannt to use an orm with it can use this tutorial to integrate propel with codeigniter

http://llanalewis.blogspot.com/2013/06/installing-propel-in-codeigniter.html

Answer 4

take a look the the codeigniter wiki page for ORM

http://codeigniter.com/wiki/ORM/

Answer 5

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.

Answer 6

You probably want something like this:

   class Cars {

    //List all neccessary vars here

    function __construct() {
        //get instance of Codeigniter Object and load database library
        $this->obj =& get_instance();
        $this->obj->load->database();
    }

//You can now list methods like so:
function selectCar($name, $color) {

        $this->obj->db->select('color')->from('car')->where('color', $color);
        $query = $this->obj->db->get();

        switch ($query->num_rows()) {
        case 0:
            return false;
            break;
        default:
            return $query->result();
            break;
        }
    }

Hope that helps!