In the previous chapter, we built a solid foundation for database work. We have a driver-based database library, through which we can execute SQL queries in an engine-agnostic way.
In this chapter, we’re going to take things even further. We’re going to build an Object-Relational Mapper (or ORM) library, to represent database rows and tables as PHP objects.
We’ve built enough of our framework, and Whoosh! website, that there are a bunch improvements we could be making to the website design and functionality. Instead of taking ...