That is very trivial to do in your ORM if you so choose - and something like the Li3 PHP framework (lithium) would handle this quite nicely. To be honest, I'd

That is very trivial to do in your ORM if you so choose - and something like the Li3 PHP framework (lithium) would handle this quite nicely. To be honest, I'd rather have on-the-fly compression of data fields. At the moment I need to do this on my end, but it would be nice to be able to mark fields as compressible. Ah well.