A few questions about code igniter

[eluser]Michael Wales[/eluser]
Once again, no.

See, rather than the other frameworks that lock into their conventions, CodeIgniter allows you to come up with your own. If you wanted - sure you could write a small library that accepted an XML file to setup your database - you could even use Active Record and DBForge to make it work across all of the supported databases.

In reality, I'm not sure how much good it would do - without being implemented in a lot of other third-party libraries. CodeIgniter doesn't care what your database looks like - it doesn't need to know anything about it (other than server, username, and password of course). The most popular ORM libraries that have been released use reflection to provide the object mapping - thus, always returning an exact reflection of the database (not what an XML file says is going on).

Personally, I setup my initial database schema with good old phpMyAdmin.