Propel is an open-source Object-Relational Mapping (ORM) for SQL-Databases in PHP 5.4. It allows you to access your database using a set of objects, providing a simple API for storing and retrieving data.

Additional to its ORM capabilities it does provide a query-builder, database schema migration, reverse engineering of existing database and much more.

Why Propel?

Propel gives you, the web application developer, the tools to work with databases in the same way you work with other classes and objects in PHP without writing SQL.

• Propel is blazing fast
• Query-Builder
• IDE friendly thanks to code-generation
• Generation of methods for all columns and relations
• Database schema migration
• Schema reverse engineering
• Customizable
• Well documented
• Propel comes with common 'behaviors'