In my old days of Codeigniter, I never really did actually use an ORM and with all these Ruby stuff on my mind I went ahead looking if they have one (which I'm pretty sure of).Basically what an ORM is that it turns your table into an object and you interact with it just like a regular object. Under the hood, DataMapper inspects the table's fields, primary keys and relationship and map this into your model's properties.

UPDATE: This post has become unstable due to migration, I don't think it'll be of any use.

Today while totally bored, I browse through my bookmarks and stumble across my favorite PHP MVC Framework.

Visit the site and watch the screencasts which I already did a couple of times when I was learning the framework and I just miss the way it works so I tried creating a simple controller and to my surprise It's quite different than the way I did it before.

Looks like Drupal has a really great impact on me, Here's the simple controller that I created: