[symfony-users] Re: Propel vs. Doctrine - Pros and Cons

2009-03-25 Thread Leon van der Ree
I am still using Propel, and the big drawback of Propel is as said the cumbersome way to define relations with criteria. I wrote a Propel helper (that requires a little extension for the propel builder) that allows you to do joins in propel much easier, see the sfGridPlugin: See

[symfony-users] Re: Propel vs. Doctrine - Pros and Cons

2009-03-24 Thread Dheeraj Kumar Aggarwal
Hi A comparison between LightORM, Propel and Doctrine is given at this link http://phplightorm.wiki.sourceforge.net/LightOrm+vs+Propel+vs+Doctrine+benchmark On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 6:28 PM, Campezzi campe...@gmail.com wrote: Hello there, I've been a PHP developer for some time now, and

[symfony-users] Re: Propel vs. Doctrine - Pros and Cons

2009-03-24 Thread Michal G
Hello, Couple of reasons why i've chosen Doctrine instead of Propel: - far, far, far, far better documentation - IMHO more readable queries with DQL than with criterions - code is maintained and actively developed - this means that bug will be fixed and support for new version of dbm's will be

[symfony-users] Re: Propel vs. Doctrine - Pros and Cons

2009-03-24 Thread Nathanael D. Noblet
Michal G wrote: Hello, Couple of reasons why i've chosen Doctrine instead of Propel: - far, far, far, far better documentation - IMHO more readable queries with DQL than with criterions - code is maintained and actively developed - this means that bug will be fixed and support for new

[symfony-users] Re: Propel vs. Doctrine - Pros and Cons

2009-03-24 Thread Campezzi
Hello everyone, Thanks for the replies. From what I heard, I'd better take a closer look into Doctrine before sealing the deal with Propel. At the moment, I'm inclined to think that working with Propel is a bit more intuitive (at least it has been easier for me to understand), but I have already

[symfony-users] Re: Propel vs. Doctrine - Pros and Cons

2009-03-24 Thread isleshocky77
Just wanted to point out that the benchmark is being done on Doctrine version 0.10.2. A LOT of work has been done on doctrine since and the current doctrine included with symfony is 1.0 and the current stable version of doctrine is 1.1 and much much more stable from the days 0.10. P.s. No I'm

[symfony-users] Re: Propel vs. Doctrine - Pros and Cons

2009-03-24 Thread Alistair MacDonald
Propel also has behaviours -- you just have to enable it when you build the model. What I find annoying is that whilst methods such as doDelete have multiple extension points with behaviours the get/set functions have no override points. This means that common code can't be added without editing