What are the alternatives to ORM?
<p>I am creating a php mvc framework for learning purposes.
 I have a really simple PDO wrapper but I feel it is still too much trouble for the user to write all the sql queries themselves. So I want to implement something like ORM like almost all php frameworks have. However, I am not a big fan of ORM and was wondering if there were any (good) alternatives to ORM. If not, then can someone provide me with a simple good ORM example?</p>