Every ORM I've ever used in PHP is junk aside from Doctrine. And Doctrine is only good if you commit fully to it. Tho that's true for most ORM's (I'm looking at you LINQ, you too, Active Record).

The only other acceptable option IMO (in phpland) is the frameworks that implement such a thin and light ORM that it helps you with redundancies without enslaving you to their verbosity and tortured syntax. (Kohana, for example).

But yes, Symfony in particular, using Propel ORM, is hideous.

Edit: I suppose I didn't "bless" somebodies favorite ORM so clipped a downvote. You could just give a counterpoint instead. And really, I did forget about ZendDb, which wasn't all that bad but I never really used it much.