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Overview

Motivation
Features
Licence

Quickstart
Wanna do more?

Installation
Tutorial
User manual
Developer’s guide
FAQ
References

Contact

Overview

Motivation

Object-relational mapping
(ORM)
is useful in developing both Web-based and non-Web-based applications.

Many of us in desperate search for good ORM tools for PHP end up finding
existing PHP persistence packages are either insufficient to address the problems
we face, or unnecessarily complex that demand a steep learning […]

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Get ready

Download and install
The config file
Database setup

The data model

The Base class
The Author class
The Book class

Create objects (and associations)

Include runtime API
Create authors
Create books
Associate authors and books
Commit and auto_flush

Object operations

Check stored objects
Find objects
Delete objects

What’s next?

So you have followed the simple example and you want to do more with EZPDO.

In this tutorial, we are […]

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The primitive types

bool, int, float
char, clob, blob
data, time and datetime

Summary of primitive types
Too few types?
Beyond primitive types

The primitive types

Here is a list of primitive data types supported in EZPDO.

bool
int(m)
decimal(m,d)
float(m)
char(m)
clob(m)
blob(m)
date
time
datetime

bool, int, float

Boolean, int, and float are the same as those defined in PHP and
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Object operations

Basic
Advanced

Event listeners
Transactions

This is a summary of the API methods that you would use for most of your tasks. The full API doc can be found here.

Object operations

Basic

All runtime calls are through the persistence manager (epManager). For most of the tasks, you need only six basic methods. They are -

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Configuration
Mapping
Compile (optional)
Runtime

Here is the workflow to use EZPDO to persist/retrieve your objects.

Configuration

You can use any text editor to modify your own EZPDO configuration file. Configuration options can be specified in either
an XML file
or
an .ini file.
A complete list of options with detailed descriptions can be found here. Most […]

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