title: Get a PHPActiveRecord result as simple array, not array of objects
body: <p><strong>I would like to have a simple a method, that can give back PHP Activerecord results as simple/associative arrays, not an array of ActiveRecord Objects.</strong> </p>
  
  <p>In Ruby I believe this is done perhaps with <code>.map()</code> method. (I am not a Ruby guy...)</p>
  
  <p>What I want is a simple method call, like <code>toArray()</code> in Zend_DB_Table, not a foreach, or something like that, but I can't seem to find it in their <a href="http://www.phpactiverecord.org/docs/index/main" rel="nofollow">docs</a>.  </p>
  
  <p>In PHP ActiveRecord getting a result is really easy: </p>
  
  <pre><code>$settings = SystemSettings::all();
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>But it gives back something like this: </p>
  
  <pre><code>[0] =&gt; SystemSettings Object
      (
          [errors] =&gt; 
          [attributes:ActiveRecord\Model:private] =&gt; Array
              (
                  [param] =&gt; author
                  [value] =&gt; Hawle
              )
  
          [__dirty:ActiveRecord\Model:private] =&gt; Array
              (
              )
  
          [__readonly:ActiveRecord\Model:private] =&gt; 
          [__relationships:ActiveRecord\Model:private] =&gt; Array
              (
              )
  
          [__new_record:ActiveRecord\Model:private] =&gt; 
      )
  
  [1] =&gt; SystemSettings Object
      (
          [errors] =&gt; 
          [attributes:ActiveRecord\Model:private] =&gt; Array
              (
                  [param] =&gt; base_url
                  [value] =&gt; example.com
              )
  
          [__dirty:ActiveRecord\Model:private] =&gt; Array
              (
              )
  
          [__readonly:ActiveRecord\Model:private] =&gt; 
          [__relationships:ActiveRecord\Model:private] =&gt; Array
              (
              )
  
          [__new_record:ActiveRecord\Model:private] =&gt; 
      )
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>While this is really great in many cases, here, I would just like to have a simple array, like this: </p>
  
  <pre><code>Array
      (
          [author] =&gt; Hawle
          [base_url] =&gt; example.com
      )
  </code></pre>