Hi, I'm also stumped as to why they don't have accessors in their code too. Makes it very difficult to gain test coverage using mock objects and it feels really horrible to me writing OOP with property names full of underscores. I notice in Doctrine 1.1 that, although I can't seem to find the generateAccessors property in the source code any longer, they have a buildAccessors() method that does the same thing as your patch. Perhaps it's now an implicit part of Doctrine? I'm still on 1.0 and I've actually patched the __call() method in the Record class to deal with accessors but I'll probably download 1.1 and give that a go. http://trac.doctrine-project.org/browser/branches/1.1/lib/Doctrine/Impor... While the method buildAccessors() exists, it doesn't appear to be invoked from anywhere though. I'll keep an eye on this. Cheers, Chris