Chapter 1. Getting Started with Doctrine 2
The Doctrine project is a collection of libraries providing utilities to ease data persistence in PHP applications. It makes it possible to create complex model layers in no time that will be compatible with popular DBMS, including SQLite, MySQL, and PostgreSQL. To discover and understand Doctrine, we will create a small blog from scratch throughout this book that will mainly use the following Doctrine components:
- Common provides utilities that are not in the PHP standard library including a class autoloader, an annotations parser, collections structures, and a cache system.
- Database Abstraction Layer (DBAL) exposes a unique interface to access popular DBMS. Its API is similar to PDO (and PDO is used when ...
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