RedBeanPHP

RedBeanPHP is an easy to use ORM library for PHP. RedBeanPHP automatically creates tables, indexes, columns and foreign keys for you. You can just start programming and RedBeanPHP will create all database structures for you on-the-fly as you go. The resulting database will be perfectlty readable and queryable. After the development phase you can freeze the database schema for excellent performance on production servers. While RedBeanPHP beans are simple value objects you can use RedBeanPHP for rich domain models as well. This is a technique called FUSE that connects simple entity objects to your own models. Even better; you can define your models post-hoc. This way RedBeanPHP allows your application to grow. Instead of either leaving you with an oversimplified domain or forcing you to design every model upfront, RedBeanPHP takes the evolutionary approach. You first work with simple plain bean objects, suited for prototyping. Then, when you need models and a domain model you don't have to refactor your old code, as soon as RedBeanPHP detects the presence of a model it will try to connect the beans to the models. RedBeanPHP makes ORM fun again!