doctrine/orm

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Doctrine ORM is an object-relational mapper for PHP 8.1+ that provides transparent persistence for PHP objects on top of the Doctrine DBAL database abstraction layer. It lets developers query databases using Doctrine Query Language (DQL), an object-oriented SQL dialect inspired by Hibernate's HQL.

Use cases

• map PHP objects to database tables
• write database queries with an object-oriented query language
• manage entity relationships and associations in PHP
• persist and retrieve domain entities transparently
• build a Symfony or Laminas application with a mature ORM
• replace raw SQL with a query builder and DQL

When to choose

• you are building a PHP application that needs robust, battle-tested object persistence
• you want rich association mapping, inheritance mapping, and event system support
• you prefer DQL/QueryBuilder over hand-written SQL
• you need a widely adopted ORM with extensive documentation and community support

When to avoid

• you want a lightweight query builder without full entity management overhead
• your project uses PHP below 8.1
• you need extremely raw, hand-tuned SQL control for every query
• you are working outside the PHP ecosystem

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library · maturity stable

orm database database-driver caching databases web-development backend developer-tools php cross-platform doctrine dql query-builder entity-mapping persistence dbal symfony

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