The doctrine library for Kohana 3 provides a simple integration with doctrine 2.*. You can configure your doctrine integration by placing the config/doctrine.php file into your app/config folder and editing it.

Currently this module supports the following mapping methods.

1. Annotation
2. Xml
3. Yaml

Currently this module supports the following caching methods.

1. Apc
2. Array
3. Memcache
4. Redis
5. Xcache

To use Kohana Doctrine, install it by composer require. You can do this by running composer require kohana/doctrine in your CLI. Then add Kohana Doctrine to your modules in bootstrap.php by adding the following line 'doctrine' => VENDORPATH.'kohana/doctrine'.

To configure doctrine copy the vendor/kohana/doctrine/config/doctrine.php or your app/config folder and editing it.

The following is a quick example of how to use Kohana Doctrine by getting the entity manager and getting a repository from the entity manager.

$entityManager = \Kohana\Doctrine\EntityManager::instance();
$entityManager->getRepository('Full\Namespace\To\Entity')