Blog and News

New version 1.4.0

We have finally released a new version 1.4.0! Download from http://www.orm-designer.com/download-orm-designer. Lot of new features and bugfixes: doctrine2, inheritance, cakephp validators, schema export etc. For full list of new features in 1.4.0 version please see our change log at the bottom of download page.

New ORM Designer promo video

Check out our new ORM Designer video. We spent 1 month of our life working on it so hope you will like it :-)

ORM Designer supports charity

ORM Designer developers are proud of supporting a charity project Rafi.ki - online learning community for school children.

ORM Designer and PHPEdit

Get the tools a Symfony developer needs, ultimate pack ORM Designer and PHPEdit IDE. You will get a 20€ discount if you buy these tools in a bundle.

Bug hunt! Find a bug and get a discount

We are willing to make ORM Designer even better and will put in our money to make ORM Designer as stable and helpful as possible. If you find a bug and report it on the forum you get a 10€ of your next order for each reported bug. Discount can be applied on licence purchase as well as on maintainance.

Create PHP Doctrine project from scratch with export settings

This article show how to create PHP Doctrine project in ORM Designer from scratch.

Import your model from external applications

Import from MySQL Workbench and fabForce DBDesigner models.

Configuring Symfony VirtualHost for ServerGrove VPS

Example of Symfony apache virtual host configuration.

How to convert number from scientific notation to decimal number in XSLT

XSL template fragment free to use.

New interface for model import (comming soon)

New import system for ORM Designer (comming soon).

Discount for EU buyers without VAT liability

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Special offer for EU subjects withou VAT number! You can now purchase ORM Designer for final price 99€. The VAT we pay for you!

Write a review and get a discount

If you want to get the discount on ORM Designer purchase, there is a simple way. You only need to write a review about ORM Designer and place it on your blog or websites.

ORM Designer road map

We would like to give you some insight information about what you could expect from ORM Designer in coming weeks and months.

New version 1.3.1 just released

Here you can find a new version of ORM Designer 1.3.1.

ORM frameworks for PHP5 - General introduction

ORM (Object Relational Mapping) is supported in all modern programming languages. When PHP5 was released and object oriented programming was more mature, the development of ORM frameworks for PHP has begun. In this three-part mini-serie we introduce two frameworks implementing Active Record design pattern and show the benefits of their usage in real situations.

ORM Designer survey

Because we are interested in your opinions and feelings for ORM Designer, we have created a short survey. We would like to have a feedback from you and know if you are satisfied with ORM Designer, have any problems or suggestions, how to improve the software.

Last 14 days to use discount coupons!

Only 2 weeks remain to buy license at special price.

ORM Designer running on Mac OS X

We have successfully tested and used ORM Designer running on Mac OS X Snow Leopard. We have used VMware Fusion 3 which is actually virtual machine running Windows and also more lightweight WineBottler which is Linux Wine port for Mac OS X.

Installing Ubuntu Server with Zend Server CE in VirtualBox Part 2/2

As I mentioned in one of previous articles we are developing under Windows with virtualized Linux server. In this article I will install step by step VirtualBox with Ubuntu Server 9.10 and Zend Server Community Edition with Zend debugger.

Installing Ubuntu Server with Zend Server CE in VirtualBox Part 1/2

As I mentioned in one of previous articles we are developing under Windows with virtualized Linux server. In this article I will install step by step VirtualBox with Ubuntu Server 9.10 and Zend Server Community Edition with Zend debugger.