[eluser]OverZealous[/eluser]
[quote author="Devon Lambert" date="1265347977"]Interesting that it's made that way as there are many DBs out there that have a reliance on a unique/primary id within a table that is not a) automatically incremented AND/OR b) not named "id".[/quote]
Just to answer this: DMZ (and DataMapper before it) is not a generic ORM. As you mentioned, there are full-fledged ORMs like Doctrine for those who need that level of control. ;-)
DMZ is designed to be easy-to-use, and fast to set up. (In my opinion, the more configurable an ORM is, the harder it is to get working.) But the catch is, you must build your DB structure to match DMZ's requirements. In the end: it isn't really designed to work with existing DBs, unless those DBs can be modified.
I make no apologies, though. Doctrine and DMZ just have different purposes. I don't see them as "competing" in any way. (It's not like I make any income off of DMZ! :-) )
