Thread:Talk:Requests for comment/Abstract table definitions/Existing tools/reply

Actually even if we don't use Doctrine (I'm not sure how Doctrine's DB coverage compares to our edge cases) that brings up an alternate idea. If someone didn't want to build a DSL or use arrays (which have so much syntax overhead it becomes hard to read the database information) writing the database layout in PHP would be an alternate idea.

Individual PHP based migrations as (classes?) in different files like Ruby's ActiveRecord's migrations which iirc some of the python SQL abstractions do too.