Earlier this year I was working on a project and needed a quick way to tie an sql table to the web. I ended up going with dadabik and I don’t regret it, it’s worked out well. But today I stumbled across an interesting alternative – MyDBO. It takes a very different approach to a similar problem. It’s basically an extensible code generation framework and is much more flexible than solutions like dadabik. At first blush I thought it would end up being more complex to work with than dadabik, but having tinkered a bit I think we would have actually had an easier time of it on the census project if we had used MyDBO – we ended up making a significant number of changes behind the scenes with dadabik which we wouldn’t have had to do with MyDBO. This is worth a look if you do a lot of mysql-php-webwork.