After working with Codeigniter, I am completely in love with the ActiveRecord method for writing mySQL queries. Now, when I was working on a project other than the cognitive one, I was recommended to use ORM to handle DB matching, which sounds great, but after learning Propel and Doctrine, I was very afraid of the additional configuration files containing the database structure, more or less.
Why do these ORM: s define the database structure and what advantage does it have over an undefined ORM, like the one associated with codeIgniter?
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