> \* Or other object-oriented abstraction layer for database access, ORMs ar...

Muzza on June 6, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Scaling PHP Book: I will teach you to scale PHP to...

> * Or other object-oriented abstraction layer for database access, ORMs aren't the only option.

What do you mean by this? That you should consider a non-relational database? Clearly any mapping from an OOP language to a relational database is an object-relational mapping.

notJim on June 6, 2012 [–]

What I meant to say is that ActiveRecord isn't the only pattern.