For those who don’t know what is P.O.R.K., it’s an Object-Relation mapper for PHP 5 that attempts to be easy, fast, lightweight, uses optimized database queries and provides an easy Find() function very loosely based on rails’.

In short, the O/R mapper handles all your basic SELECT/INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE/JOIN/CREATE statements for you so you won’t have to write the same SQL over and over. You just create PHP objects that are linked to a row in the database.

The above description and original work is from mr. Jelle Ursem (see http://www.schizofreend.nl/ for more info). I came accross his work when I was about to create More >