Juozas Kaziukenas’ Blog: Zend Framework and Doctrine series

Doctrine is slowly getting more and more popular among Zend Framework developers. Since development of Zend_Entity is dropped in favor of Doctrine integration, it’s popularity should not be surprised. Especially that it is solid ORM-like tool. One of Doctrine integration evangelists is Jouzas Kaziukenas.

So about 3-4 months ago I completely switched to Doctrine. After evaluating possible solutions I decided to stay with Doctrine for a long time. I don’t know any other solution coming, I definitely don’t want (mainly because I don’t have time) to invest on creating my own library and Doctrine is simply awesome when you get used to it. After all this time I can say that it was a right call – Doctrine is on a way to being officially supported in Zend Framework (Symfony has it right now) and with Doctrine 2.0 (you can see a short presentation of its new features right here) it will be just a perfect tools combination.

He begun publishing series of posts about his experience in Doctrine and Zend Framework integration. First two parts of the series cover brief description of Doctrine and it’s capabilities, setting up Doctrine resource, creating database, models and executing simple query.