You can do raw queries also... Just makes trivial queries and your model (if you believe in modelling) easier to manage. Believe me, I thought like you did before using symfony. On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 10:52 PM, altern <altern@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > All my queries are complex. If I will use ORM, then I still will need > another > wrapper to create, for example template criteria objects. I have > application > that is very similar to billing system. Such type of applications > definitely > have other business logic levels in addition to ORM queries, as you might > notice. > > > Geek (de=German top level domain) wrote: > > > > You can do raw SQL queries with ORM as well, at least in symfony ;). An > > ORM > > makes other, rather trivial queries a whole lot easier though and a > > framework like symfony makes development of generic requirements a lot > > faster and cleaner. > > > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/Accounting-component-in-PHP-tp20897026p20911661.html > Sent from the PHP - General mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- Tim-Hinnerk Heuer http://www.ihostnz.com -- Web Design, Hosting and free Linux Support