[j4mie]

Laravel’s ORM was originally inspired by my now-long-dead PHP projects Idiorm and Paris:

https://laravelpodcast.com/episodes/c7807d42/transcript (Search for “Paris” to find the relevant section)

https://github.com/j4mie/idiorm

https://github.com/j4mie/paris

Idiorm was started in early 2010 while I was still writing PHP professionally. I’d heard about Django from a talk @simonw gave at the FlashBrighton meet-up group in 2009 and immediately fell in love. Idiorm and Paris, although not direct attempts to duplicate Django’s ORM, came from frustration that such an elegant ORM and query builder didn’t exist in the PHP world.

So in a roundabout way, Laravel’s ORM was absolutely inspired by Django.

As a side note, I’m still doing Django 16 years later and love it more than ever.

[n3storm]

I do love Django too! and my developtment with more users (not most deployed) is running on Django :)