ORMizer

Simple but functional PHP ORM based on Active Record. Focused on being extremely easy to use.

Why?

There are many excellent choices out there. Professional and well tested frameworks that do this in a perfect way (surely better than this tool). But ...

• I needed a simple tool for small projects.
• I greatly appreciate the ease of use. ORMizer does not involve the learning curve of a framework.
• I like intuitive approaches, although this means fewer options.
• I love spending my free time coding. My wife does not like it so much, I think. :-D

Features

• Transparency of the entire access layer to DDBB.
• Configurable type casting.
• An object transformed by ORMizer retains all its original functionality: you can use its public methods.
• You can define an alias for an object when you create it and retrieve it using the alias.
• You can preload all objects with aliases and make them available in global scope.

Usage

1 - Edit Config.php with your database settings:

class Config {

    //Database options
    const DBMS = 'mysql'; // Must be the PDO string for the Database Management System
    const DBMS_HOST = 'localhost';
    const DBMS_PORT = ''; // Leave empty for default port
    const APP_DB = 'ormzr_tests';
    const APP_DB_USER = 'ormzr_tests_user';
    const APP_DB_USER_PASS = 'ormzr_tests_user_pass';
}

2 - Include the ORMizer autoloader:

include("ORMizer.inc.php");

3 - Use the ORMizer class and namespace in your script:

use ORMizer\ORMizer;

Now, you are ready to:

Make an object persistent:

$original = new Original("arg1", "arg2");
$persistent = ORMizer::persist($original);

Save it into database:

$persistent->save();

Load from database:

$persitent->load($ormizer_id);

Delete from the database:

$persistent->delete();

Retrieve all objects of same class saved in the database:

$all = $persistent->getSavedInstances();

More in the examples included.