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dabl/adapter
============

DABL database adapters

v1.2.1(9y ago)15843MITPHP

Since Jul 5Pushed 9y ago2 watchersCompare

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DABL Adapter
============

[](#dabl-adapter)

Subclasses of PHP PDO for various SQL dialects

Example
-------

[](#example)

code:

```
use Dabl\Adapter\DABLPDO;

// get connection (parameters usually come from .ini file)
$pdo = DABLPDO::connect(array(
    'driver' => 'mysql',
    'host' => 'localhost',
    'dbname' => 'test',
    'user' => 'root',
    'password' => ''
));

// Get database schema
$schema = $pdo->getDatabaseSchema();
$tables = $schema->getTables();
$columns = $table[0]->getColumns();
$type = $columns[0]->getType();
```

Features
--------

[](#features)

- Normalized constructor
- Read schema schemas (thanks to modified Propel libraries)
- Date and time helper methods (getTimestampFormatter, hourStart, dayStart, weekStart, monthStart)
- Helper methods for quoting arrays of parameters and identifier quoting
- Helper methods for applying LIMIT behavior

Supported Dialects
------------------

[](#supported-dialects)

- Microsoft Access
- Microsoft SQL Server
- MySQL
- Oracle
- Postgres
- Redshift
- SQLite

###  Health Score

32

—

LowBetter than 69% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity15

Limited adoption so far

Community12

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity69

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 ~31 days

Recently: every ~47 days

Total

10

Last Release

3362d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/459337?v=4)[Dan Blaisdell](/maintainers/danomatic)[@danomatic](https://github.com/danomatic)

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Top Contributors

[![danomatic](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/459337?v=4)](https://github.com/danomatic "danomatic (26 commits)")

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Tags

abstractiondatabaseormadapterpropeldabl

###  Code Quality

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