Mike Whitman

Symfony has the choice of two ORM tools, Doctrine and Propel, will be interesting to see how they stack up to Rails’ ORM, ActiveRecord,  and the Java ORM, Hibernate. This blog suggests that Doctrine is superior.  Looks like Doctrine, which is the default tool, is setup with a .yaml file which is what Active Record uses. If Symfony is Rails for PHP I am not sure I will like it.  I prefer linking pieces together with XML descriptors rather than by assumed naming conventions that I always forget because either I don’t use the framework enough or I killed those brain cells with the beer I drank last night.  I like an xml descriptor file to refresh myself on how an application is put together.