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rjjakes/wordpress-orm
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WORM. Doctrine style ORM for Wordpress.

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WORM (Wordpress ORM)
====================

[](#worm-wordpress-orm)

*Under active development*

A lightweight, Doctrine style ORM for Wordpress 4.8+. Requires PHP 5.5+

This library borrows a lot of concepts from Doctrine for Symfony including the mapper, entity manager, repositories, one-to-many entity relationships, lazy-loading of related entities and a query builder.

It acts as a layer sitting on top of the internal Wordpress `$wpdb` class.

All queries are run through the internal Wordpress `$wpdb->prepare()` function to protect against SQL injection attacks.

Why?
----

[](#why)

I came to Wordpress from a Symfony development background. I wanted to work with objects instead of manually writing SQL queries. I looked around for a good ORM and was unable to find anything that fulfilled my requirements.

Getting Doctrine to work with Wordpress was complex and seemed like overkill as it's a very heavy weight library.

There's also:  which is really good, but is more of a query builder for existing Wordpress tables.

Version history
---------------

[](#version-history)

master branch = active development

0.1.0 tag = previous master. The version most people would be using circa last 2022.

Installation
------------

[](#installation)

```
composer require rjjakes/wordpress-orm

```

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

### Create a model

[](#create-a-model)

To use the ORM, first create a class that extends the ORM base model and add a number of properties as protected variables. The property names must exactly match the desired SQL column names (there is no name mapping).

Note that a property of `$id` is added to the model when you do `extends BaseModel` so you do not need to add that.

Example:

```