Postgres’ double quotes
Its hard to believe that out of all the PHP ORM’s not one of them can handle Postgres’ case sensitive double quotes. The closest ORM framework that got around to making it work was Doctrine 2.1. While it worked for the @Column annotation, they oddly decided that they wouldn’t implement that feature for @JoinColumn, which makes it very frustrating.
So with that in mind, and after spending the entire day finding and testing different ORM frameworks (Doctrine, Propel, php.activerecord), that I decided to write my own instead. Don’t know what to call it yet, nor have I decided whether to opensource it via github. Its basically, at its core, very similar to how rails does it (well that’s the holy grail of awesome implementation). Still have a lot more work to be done though, for the time being it will remain as a postgres only ActiveRecord implementation, but I will, hopefully when time allows, have it refactored to use different types of RDBMS.