Propel or Doctrine for ZF integration

I have never used any ORM, but the Zend_Db_Table (if you can call it one). I'd like give it a try with some famous ROM and 开发者_开发知识库I've only heard of these 2 (Propel and Doctrine).

I tried sometimes in the past but I found it too hard to integrate or maybe I didn't understand how it works.

Now that I'm trying again, I'd like to know which one has easier integration with Zend Framework and which one is easier to work and why

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Doctrine and Propel are definitely the two best know PHP ORM's among some others.

Doctrine has definitely seen some more love from ZF and there is rumors that Doctrine 2 will play a major role in ZF2, though afaik nothing as been confirmed as of this writing.

Here is some links for you to follow:

• Integrating Propel with the Zend Framework (2006)
• Brandon Savage: The Adventures Of Merging Propel With Zend Framework

and

• Ruben Vermeersch: Integrating Zend Framework and Doctrine 1.x
• Matthew Weier O'Phinney: Autoloading Doctrine and Doctrine entities from Zend Framework
• Doctrine 2 and Zend Framework first date

Also see these two questions that have additional information and links:

• Zend Framework 1.9 and Doctrine Integration
• Integrate Doctrine with Zend Framework 1.8 app

Should not be hard to find many more for Doctrine.

EDIT very nice one from Phil's comment:

• Zend Framework / Doctrine integration suite