PHP North East - July: What is Doctrine ORM and should I use it?

We are pleased to announce the July event of PHP North East.  Following last months successful trial of the new venue, @PostOfficeNE1 courtesy of PNE, this months talk will be held there again (followed by drinks in the Town Wall pub afterwards for anyone who wants to join us).  Your feedback on this venue for future events would be appreciated on our Google Group topic.  Thanks to the generous... [read more]

We are pleased to announce the July event of PHP North East.  Following last months successful trial of the new venue, @PostOfficeNE1 courtesy of PNE, this months talk will be held there again (followed by drinks in the Town Wall pub afterwards for anyone who wants to join us).  Your feedback on this venue for future events would be appreciated on our Google Group topic.  Thanks to the generous sponsorship of Laura Sharpe of Sharpe Recruitment, there will be a stack of pizzas to eat before the talk.  The event is free and open to all, but please sign up online so we have an idea of numbers for the venue, and how much Laura needs to cough up for the pizzas. Please promote this event via Twitter or your own website, to help us spread the word. This months event features the talk, What is Doctrine ORM and should I use it? by Juozas Kaziukenas (@juokaz, http://juokaz.com) a core Doctrine developer, Zend Framework contributor and CEO of Web Species (@webspecies, http://webspecies.co.uk). What is Doctrine ORM and should I use it? Doctrine is an enterprise object persistence layer for PHP 5.3.2+ that supports persisting PHP objects to relational databases like MySQL, Oracle, etc. and document based storage systems like CouchDB and MongoDB as well. I've been using it and involved in development for a long time, so I wanted to share what I think makes it a must-have tool for complicated systems. It doesn't work in all situations, but that's what we are going to discuss, apart from this the talk focuses on: Introduction to ORMs What problems they solve Issues with ORMs PHP ORMs history Problems with Doctrine 1 Doctrine 2 - completely different beast Doctrine 2 basics Using Doctrine 2 Performance numbers/Overhead Integrating with existing applications This talk is a brief introduction to the world of ORMs, focusing a lot on "should I use this" and "how can I use this?" while at the same time explaining how Doctrine works and looks code-wise. If you would like a good grounding for the talk, you may want to read (http://seldo.com/weblog/2011/06/15/orm_is_an_antipattern) before coming to the talk.

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