Lukas Kahwe Smith wrote:

>  It would be nice if the current people working on Database related stuff 
>  speak up (Justin, Alan, Mark, David) on their take.

I had a deep look into Doctrine's documentation and like the package. As
you already wrote, it lacks support of generating forms.

My plan a few months ago was to make a PHP 5 version of DB_Table. This
makes only sense if there is a PHP 5 databases abstraction layer and PHP
5 form generation class in PEAR. The last one (HTML_QuickForm2) is on
its way, the first one is not (I don't know about plans for MDB3). Using
PDO would be an alternative, of course.

But my time is limited due to my studies (I'd like to get finished with
them in 2007) and I don't think that I'll work on an successor of
DB_Table in the next months (at least not alone).

David Morse is going to finish his work on the Database extension for
DB_Table in the next weeks and we are going to make a new release then.

My conclusion: It would be possible to either make DB_Table PHP 5
compatible or to add form generation abilities to Doctrine. I think it
makes sense to do only one of these two possibilites to avoid duplicate
work with very similar goals. But I'm unsure which way would be the best
to go.

Regards,
Mark

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