On Wednesday 06 February 2008, Edward Kay wrote: > Have a look at Qcodo. http://www.qcodo.com. > > It uses code generation to create your ORM for you direct from the DB > tables. As it's code generation as opposed to run time analysis (which is > what ActiveRecord and the like use), there is no performance hit - it > literally just creates your PHP class files for you. Uh, lots of Active Record systems use code generation. If the structure of your data abstraction is based on the database structure, then you're using Active Record. It's record-centric. If you're using an object-centric view of the world that may just happen to tie to an SQL database for its data store, then it's an ORM. Both are useful in different circumstances, but whether or not there is code generation has nothing to do with whether it's AR or ORM. -- Larry Garfield AIM: LOLG42 larry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ICQ: 6817012 "If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it." -- Thomas Jefferson -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
