The local Oklahoma City PHP User Group is re-starting with the okcCoCo as the new venue. The new meetings will be on the second Tuesday of each month, starting with Tuesday, June 09, 2009 at 6:30pm as the first official meeting. Visit the official OKC PHP User Group website to register for meeting reminders and to connect with other local PHP developers.
I will be presenting my talk on Building a Data Mapper with PHP5 and the Standard PHP Library, followed by a discussion on ORMs and whatever else comes up. The presentation will cover all the thought processes, goals, theories, and actual code that goes into building an ORM (or really any other larger project that requires more advance planning). The project that was the basis of this presentation is phpDataMapper – an open-source PHP5 data mapper ORM layer that I started in the fall of 2008. It now powers the model layer of InvoiceMore, a live web application I launched in March 2009.
This is a presentation I have given before at Tulsa TechFest.
Hi Vance, I wrote you through email yesterday, but given that it’s Sunday in the US and you’re a busy guy, I’m sure you haven’t had a chance to respond. Hopefully you’re enjoying the weekend with your family, perhaps away from the computer.
I’m looking for an ORM framework to use with the Zend Framework for a migration to Zend for a New Zealand-based client I’m working for. I see you’ve got phpDataMapper up & powering InvoiceMore (like the concept!) I was wondering if you’ve used it with Zend, and could offer any examples, source code, etc. that would help me slot your ORM into Zend. Any extended examples with multiple joins would be great!
If I can help you in your continued development, I’d be glad to pitch in. We’re going to need transactions, so perhaps I can help implement that part of it (?) While our finished product will not be open source, I’d be glad to abstract any proprietary methods out, and supply the ‘finished’ phpDataMapper ORM + Zend project, as an example.
Hope to hear from you soon,
Kelley
@Kelley -
Check your email – I just replied to you. Also, I created two more pages of documentation to help address some of the questions you had:
Table Relationships:
http://phpdatamapper.com/documentation/usage/table-relationships/
Custom Row Objects:
http://phpdatamapper.com/documentation/usage/custom-row-objects/