PHPackages                             artoodetoo/dbal - PHPackages - PHPackages  [Skip to content](#main-content)[PHPackages](/)[Directory](/)[Categories](/categories)[Trending](/trending)[Leaderboard](/leaderboard)[Changelog](/changelog)[Analyze](/analyze)[Collections](/collections)[Log in](/login)[Sign up](/register)

1. [Directory](/)
2. /
3. [Database & ORM](/categories/database)
4. /
5. artoodetoo/dbal

ActiveLibrary[Database & ORM](/categories/database)

artoodetoo/dbal
===============

DataBase Abstraction Layer

025PHP

Since Feb 22Pushed 11y ago1 watchersCompare

[ Source](https://github.com/artoodetoo/dbal)[ Packagist](https://packagist.org/packages/artoodetoo/dbal)[ RSS](/packages/artoodetoo-dbal/feed)WikiDiscussions master Synced 1mo ago

READMEChangelogDependenciesVersions (1)Used By (0)

DBAL
====

[](#dbal)

DataBase Abstraction Layer.

### Installation

[](#installation)

The package can be installed via Composer by requiring the "artoodetoo/dbal" package in your project's composer.json.

```
{
    "require": {
        "artoodetoo/dbal": "dev-master"
    }
}
```

### Usage

[](#usage)

```
require 'vendor/autoload.php';

use R2\DBAL\PDOMySQL;

$db = new PDOMySQL([
    'username' => 'john',
    'password' => 'tiger',
    'dbname'   => 'testdb'
]);
$list = $db
    ->query("SELECT id FROM test")
    ->fetchAssocAll();
```

### Feature list

[](#feature-list)

Every DBALInterface descendant do:

- named placeholders without ":" sign, so you can do

```
    $db->query($sql, compact('name', 'city', 'ids'))
```

- array substitution for IN(:ids)
- auto NULL substitution for nulls or empty arrays
- method chaining like

```
    $db
        ->beginTransaction
            ->query($insertSql1)
            ->query($insertSql2)
            ->query($insertSql3)
        ->commit();
```

### License

[](#license)

The DBAL is open-source software, licensed under the [MIT license](http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)

###  Health Score

20

—

LowBetter than 14% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity6

Limited adoption so far

Community7

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity41

Maturing project, gaining track record

 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.

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/b982e008c16f8ed2e586e900267b93b01114c28edad839b80b2bad2f4cf1a15d?d=identicon)[artoodetoo](/maintainers/artoodetoo)

---

Top Contributors

[![artoodetoo](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/577710?v=4)](https://github.com/artoodetoo "artoodetoo (4 commits)")

### Embed Badge

![Health badge](/badges/artoodetoo-dbal/health.svg)

```
[![Health](https://phpackages.com/badges/artoodetoo-dbal/health.svg)](https://phpackages.com/packages/artoodetoo-dbal)
```

###  Alternatives

[doctrine/orm

Object-Relational-Mapper for PHP

10.2k285.3M6.2k](/packages/doctrine-orm)[jdorn/sql-formatter

a PHP SQL highlighting library

3.9k115.1M102](/packages/jdorn-sql-formatter)[illuminate/database

The Illuminate Database package.

2.8k52.4M9.4k](/packages/illuminate-database)[mongodb/mongodb

MongoDB driver library

1.6k64.0M546](/packages/mongodb-mongodb)[ramsey/uuid-doctrine

Use ramsey/uuid as a Doctrine field type.

90340.3M211](/packages/ramsey-uuid-doctrine)[reliese/laravel

Reliese Components for Laravel Framework code generation.

1.7k3.4M16](/packages/reliese-laravel)

PHPackages © 2026

[Directory](/)[Categories](/categories)[Trending](/trending)[Changelog](/changelog)[Analyze](/analyze)