Doctrine1 was a mess. It was riddled with magic functions that were horrible to work with. It was slow, too. Doctrine2, mixed with entities, is awesome. Its re

Doctrine1 was a mess. It was riddled with magic functions that were horrible to work with. It was slow, too. Doctrine2, mixed with entities, is awesome. Its relationship manager is fun and easy to work with and it works very well. You can even create hand-written custom queries if you want, using its own DSL that's fairly similar to what you would expect.