DABL is a database ORM that builds PHP classes to represent and interact with each table in your database. Using these classes, table rows can be created, retrieved, updated, deleted, and counted using very simple and short commands without writing raw SQL (unless you want to). DABL is designed to make the repetitive tasks of database access easier using the Object-Oriented functionality of PHP 5. DABL also recognizes foreign key relationships and automatically creates class methods for them.