On Tue, 11 Sep 2007, Kenneth Downs wrote: > As you may guess, I'm no fan of ORM. The main reason is what I just > said above. OO code and table-based data are two very different beasts > with very different natures. ORM tries to make one look like the > other. Why would anybody want to do this?
For a couple of reasons: 1) Dealing with SQL from an OOP programming language is not natural. 2) Conceptual relationships are easier to deal with via objects. 3) It gives you a layer of abstraction above the database to the degree that it doesn't matter what the underlying database actually is, you have a uniform interface always. Doesn't matter if you switch SQLlite to MySQL to Postgres - all looks the same. -- Aj. _______________________________________________ New York PHP Community Talk Mailing List http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk NYPHPCon 2006 Presentations Online http://www.nyphpcon.com Show Your Participation in New York PHP http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php
