I still haven't used it yet, but good to hear that you like it. I'm still meaning to try it someday when I have a reason to. At work, just about everything I do is inside the Kohana framework which has its own
system that is fairly powerfull (if not sometimes a little frustraighting and poorly documented)
for small projects that don't need a lot of relational mapping, there's a really sweet lightweight class I found called
idiorm that I love and use regularly whenever I'm working out side of our heavier framework and just need to do simple database operations (although, it allows you to insert raw SQL as well)