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Doctrine 2 and why you should use it!

If any of you are used to Hibernate in the Java world you will know what I am talking about. But Doctrine 2 is almost exactly the same as Hibernate.

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Doctrine ORM Joys and Frustrations

 I was to first make it clear that I think Doctrine is a fantastic ORM and my choice by far for any PHP project.

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Object Relational Mappers in CakePHP, CI and other frameworks

 I am currently doing a project in CakePHP which I generally like, it is far from perfect but it is heading in the direction and is getting even better with 1.3 nearly being released. It also happens to be one of the most popular open source web frameworks in Japan which is a good reason to get using it.

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Giving up on views in Drupal

Whats wrong with views? 

If you can't hand code PHP or can't be bothered with working out the joins on Drupal's data structure then fine, it can save you having to deal with that. 

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Doctrine autoload problem in version 1.2.1

I realized it was time to install doctrine into one of my legacy apps to bring it up to date and boost it some power somewhat. It seems that documentation was a bit lagging and I particularly had trouble with the autoloading of models.

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