Completely unfair, totally biased review of PHP ORM libraries
2009-05-07 4:37 pm ∴ Rant,Thoughts ∴ Tags: , , , ∴ by matt -

This has been on my mind for a long, long time. Having been spoiled with SQLAlchemy and Elixir, I am tortured with sub-par ORM libraries while at work. Granted I did get to use SA for an internal project, but the majority of the things I do involves PHP.

I’ve been stuck with it for years. It is the language of choice for people who run servers and hate web developers. So yeah, 5 years of PHP and MySQL …and using so many different libs for database abstraction has given me some room to shoot my mouth off.

Anyway, this is going to be a long post and not for the faint of heart.  I’m going to start off at the beginning…

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