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I would like to quickly access result by primary key.

Eg result output to be "similar" as below:

$users = ORM::factory('user_model')->find_all()->as_array();

//returned as
$users = array(
  '123' => ORM::Factory(user_model, 123), 
  '456' => ORM::Factory(user_model, 456), 
  '789' => ORM::Factory(user_model, 789)
)

notice that the array index is the table primary key

eg usage: get username for id 456
$usersr456->username;

eg usage: get status for id 456
$usersr456->email;

instead or next() or prev() or rewind() why not jump exactly to the designated object where possible. This could be a cool feature to add. In any way I don't see any performance trade off instead of conviniences.

This feature also could be similar to temporary table with primary key in the array.

Simple solution:

38        public function as_array($index_by=null)
39        {
 ...
46    
47                foreach ($results as $obj)
48                {
                    if($index_by != null)
49                       $array[$obj->$index_by] = new $class($obj);
                    else
                       $array[] = new $class($obj);
50                }
51            }
52    
53            return $array;
54        }

Parameter $index_by can be any field. Just in case want to use 'username' field as reference key

... ->as_array('username');
//now can use
$users['towfx']->email; 
// to get email if already got username