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7. Building an Object-Relational Mapper Library

Christopher Pitt1  
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Verbena Close 1, Stellenberg, Durbanville, Cape Town, South Africa
 

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 ...

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