Introduction

A drop-in Doctrine ORM 2 implementation for Laravel 5+

Doctrine 2 is an object-relational mapper (ORM) for PHP that provides transparent persistence for PHP objects. It uses the Data Mapper pattern at the heart, aiming for a complete separation of your domain/business logic from the persistence in a relational database management system.

The benefit of Doctrine for the programmer is the ability to focus on the object-oriented business logic and worry about persistence only as a secondary problem. This doesn’t mean persistence is downplayed by Doctrine 2, however it is our belief that there are considerable benefits for object-oriented programming if persistence and entities are kept separated.

Laravel Doctrine offers:

• Easy configuration
• Pagination
• Preconfigured metadata, connections and caching
• Extendable: extend or add your own drivers for metadata, connections or cache
• Change metadata, connection or cache settings easy with a resolved hook
• Annotations, yaml, xml, config and static php meta data mappings
• Multiple entity managers and connections
• Laravel naming strategy
• Simple authentication implementation
• Password reminders implementation
• Doctrine console commands
• DoctrineExtensions supported
• Timestamps, Softdeletes and TablePrefix listeners