Junction

When developing PHP applications a great deal of time and effort is wasted writing tedious SQL queries to create, read, update, and delete (CRUD) entities. This situation is exacerbated when working with objects because relational database management systems, with which most persistent storage is maintained, can only store scalar values organized into tables. The developer is responsible for translating objects into a series of scalar values which can be stored in a RDMBS for storage and for translating these scalar values pulled from the RDBMS into an object for reading. This translation process is often very time consuming when approached in an ad hoc manner.