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.