Is there a Entity Attribute Value (EAV) framework out there for PHP/MySQL?

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Eric Guerin picture Eric Guerin · Oct 22, 2008 · Viewed 7.5k times · Source

Is there a Entity Attribute Value framework out there for PHP/MySQL? I'm starting to write my own, but I feel like its been done already. Any suggestions?

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Dave Marshall picture Dave Marshall · Oct 22, 2008

I think Magento makes use of an EAV style architecture, might be worth having a look in there. Magento is an ecommerce platform based on the Zend Framework.

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