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andela-aonyango/potato-orm
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A lightweight ORM built using PHP and PDO.

v1.0.3(10y ago)026MITPHPPHP >=5.6.0

Since Feb 20Pushed 10y ago1 watchersCompare

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### potato-orm

[](#potato-orm)

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A light-weight ORM which allows you to insert records into a database, retrieve them, update them, and delete them.

### Install

[](#install)

Via Composer

```
$ composer require andela-aonyango/potato-orm
```

In the package directory, run

```
$ composer install
```

### Usage

[](#usage)

Edit the example .env provided in the root of this package with the database settings you will use (make sure you .gitignore **YOUR** .env file). The one given uses MYSQL settings. PDO supports many [database drivers](https://secure.php.net/manual/en/pdo.drivers.php) so you can get familiar with what are valid/invalid inputs for the DSN and so on.

#### Sample Table

[](#sample-table)

```
create table Person (
    id int unsigned auto_increment primary key,
    first_name varchar(30) not null,
    last_name varchar(30) not null,
    age int(2),
    gender varchar(7)
);
```

#### Sample Usage

[](#sample-usage)

```

```

### Change log

[](#change-log)

Please see [CHANGELOG](CHANGELOG.md) for more information what has changed recently.

### Testing

[](#testing)

```
$ composer test
```

### Contributing

[](#contributing)

Please see [CONTRIBUTING](CONTRIBUTING.md) and [CONDUCT](CONDUCT.md) for details.

### Security

[](#security)

If you discover any security related issues, please email  instead of using the issue tracker.

### Credits

[](#credits)

- [andela-aonyango](https://github.com/andela-aonyango)
- [All Contributors](../../contributors)

### License

[](#license)

The MIT License (MIT). Please see [License File](LICENSE.md) for more information.

###  Health Score

26

—

LowBetter than 41% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity6

Limited adoption so far

Community7

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity61

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~2 days

Total

4

Last Release

3777d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1958708?v=4)[andrizzle](/maintainers/andrizzle)[@andrizzle](https://github.com/andrizzle)

---

Top Contributors

[![andela-aonyango](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/16223633?v=4)](https://github.com/andela-aonyango "andela-aonyango (41 commits)")

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Tags

Potato-ORMandela-aonyango

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