Drop-in PHP Doctrine plugin

[eluser]Nick Husher[/eluser]
CI-Doctrine - built for Doctrine 1.0 (included in package)

A colleague of mine recently turned me on to Doctrine, an Object-Relational Mapper for PHP5. There are plenty of great resources that explain exactly what using an ORM gets you, but for me it boils down to being able to transparently serialize objects into my database in a human-understandable way.

The problem is that Doctrine didn't really have CodeIgniter in mind when it was developed, so it can be a little difficult and confusing to install it in such a way as to be maintainable and comfortable to use for a CI developer. I read the Wiki article, which is a little dated (for version 0.1 rather that version 1.0), and requires hacking of core CodeIgniter files. I also found a helpful blog entry, which migrates any core hacking out into a hook, but it still required some configuration and couldn't be selectively disabled on some pages (not every page needs that kind of page overhead). I want drop-in-and-go ease, and flexibility.

So, I developed my own solution in the form of a CI plugin. It grabs information from the database.php configuration file, just like the hook, but is as simple as dropping it into your CI plugins directory and writing your schema file.

The Readme file follows: