[eluser]Colin Williams[/eluser]
I just caught a good article on PHPClasses about ORM, and a new solution called Metastorage, described as an "object persistence API generator." Being a code generation tool, I imagine integration with CI would be fairly simple, since all you need to do is load the proper files that Metastorage generates sometime during execution in your CI app (don't see why they couldn't be models, in fact).
The article serves as a good primer to ORM, and can be found at [url="http://www.phpclasses.org/blog/post/82-PHP-ObjectRelational-Mapping-ORM-or-ROM.html"]http://www.phpclasses.org/blog/post/82-PHP-ObjectRelational-Mapping-ORM-or-ROM.html[/url]
Metastorage is at [url="http://www.meta-language.net/metastorage.html"]http://www.meta-language.net/metastorage.html[/url]
Just wanted to share for those of you looking for ORM solutions.