ORM / ActiveRecord / DataMapper for PHP: what to use?

Question

Yii

Asking the community - what ORM / ActiveRecord / DataMapper are you using?
Yii's Active Record is fine as long as it's not about saving HAS_MANY and MANY_MANY.
Even here there is such an extension for Yii , which is close to what you need, but not quite.
An example of what you want to do: Two tables/models: product(id, name), product_images (
image_id, product_id, sort_order)
use column sort_order(1,2,3,4,5).
It is clear that the issue is also solved with activerecord, but I want a more _convenient_ _flexible_ solution so as not to reinvent the wheel every time when you need to manipulate "additional columns" with relationships like HAS_MANY \ MANY_MANY
Which ORM has the most enjoyable experience with HAS_MANY\MANY_MANY?
Ps due to not fully understanding the terminology, maybe what I'm looking for is not "ORM / ActiveRecord / DataMapper"?

Answer 1

First you need to decide if you want AR or DM.
These are completely different things.
From AR, I advise illuminate / database, but everything is bad with DM - I haven’t seen any good implementations in PHP.
There is, of course, Doctrine, but the code and quality are just terrible. However, you have to use it for lack of anything better.