CI4 Model or Entity with Relation between two tables

There is no intention at the moment to turn it into a full ORM. That's a huge job, and very complex one to do right, and we're still trying to get a final out for 4.0.

The easiest solution is to simply create new methods in your model to retrieve those for one or more. This isn't any different than would have been done in prior versions of CodeIgniter.

If however, you're feeling adventurous and want to create an ORM on top the existing tools, I know we'd all love it. I've started playing with the concepts over here but won't have time to explore it any more for quite some time, if ever. Feel free to take that as a starting point, and let us know when you get something up and running. I know I'd be very interested in seeing it.

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