Easier database table creation with PHP

Is there any other more simple way of creating a database table?

I recently started creating wordpress plugins and I was fascinated by the easiness of creating a table or adding values to present tables.

Dbdelta() is am开发者_如何学Cazing, is there any other PHP classes just like that, that allows you to create tables that easy?

The sanest way to create, maintain and deploy database schemas I have found are migrations.
Ruckusing is a decent migrations framework for PHP + MySQL. It works well for me on several large and small projects.