Welcome to the Doctrine Project¶
The Doctrine Project is the home of a selected set of PHP libraries primarily focused on providing persistence services and related functionality. Its prize projects are a Object Relational Mapper and the Database Abstraction Layer it is built on top of. You can read more about the projects below or view a list of all projects.
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Doctrine Projects¶
Object Relational Mapper
Object relational mapper (ORM) for PHP that sits on top of a powerful database abstraction layer (DBAL). One of its key features is the option to write database queries in a proprietary object oriented SQL dialect called Doctrine Query Language (DQL), inspired by Hibernates HQL. This provides developers with a powerful alternative to SQL that maintains flexibility without requiring unnecessary code duplication.
Common
The Doctrine Common project is a library that provides extensions to core PHP functionality.
Database Abstraction Layer
Powerful database abstraction layer with many features for database schema introspection, schema management and PDO abstraction.
MongoDB Object Document Mapper
Doctrine MongoDB Object Document Mapper is built for PHP 5.3.2+ and provides transparent persistence for PHP objects.
CouchDB Object Document Mapper
Doctrine CouchDB Object Document Mapper is built for PHP 5.3.2+ and provides transparent persistence for PHP objects.
Migrations
The Doctrine Migrations offer additional functionality on top of the database abstraction layer (DBAL) for versioning your database schema and easily deploying changes to it. It is a very easy to use and powerful tool.
PHPCR Object Document Mapper
Doctrine PHPCR Object Document Mapper is built for PHP 5.3.2+ and provides transparent persistence for PHP objects.
