Alexander M. Turek
Alexander has been developing applications with PHP for over 20 years. As a freelance software developer, he modernizes old applications and prepares them for the future. He is passionate about open source and is an active member of the Symfony and Doctrine core teams.
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How much database abstraction do I need?
King Vault - 13.30
SQL databases are an important part of many web applications. But what's the best way to interact with such a database? Do I use hand-crafted SQL statements everywhere in order to always remain in control? Or do I use an ORM, so I don't need to repeat myself too often and to remain compatible with multiple SQL databases?
We will take a deep dive into the Doctrine libraries ORM and DBAL as well as native PHP extensions and compare them with our use cases in mind.
