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dduers/pdo-xpress
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Extension classes for PHP's PDO class with convinience methods and datamodel class

3.0.0(4y ago)09MITPHPPHP >=7.4

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PDOXpress
=========

[](#pdoxpress)

What is this?
-------------

[](#what-is-this)

This is a simple class that enables convinience methods when working with PHP's PDO class. Note that it has it's limits, but for simple applications with requirement of very simple ORM, it does it's job. Note that, for the moment, only the mysql driver is supported

Features
--------

[](#features)

### Prepared statements

[](#prepared-statements)

The methods of the class will convert your inputs to prepared statements to mitigate SQL injection attacks. Of course you also can run SQL queries the old style, by simply string concats.

### Escaping HTML spectial chars

[](#escaping-html-spectial-chars)

The select methods have a parameter, which escapes single and double quotes for usage in html forms or other places.

### Strip tags

[](#strip-tags)

The insert and update methods have a parameter, to strip XML tags, before storing user inputs to the database.

Inputs welcome
--------------

[](#inputs-welcome)

Have you found bugs or have you encountered errors in edge cases? Please open an issue then.

###  Health Score

24

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LowBetter than 32% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity4

Limited adoption so far

Community7

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity55

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.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~18 days

Total

6

Last Release

1592d ago

Major Versions

1.0.2 → 2.0.02021-10-04

2.0.1 → 3.0.02021-12-30

PHP version history (2 changes)1.0.0PHP ^7.4

3.0.0PHP >=7.4

### Community

Maintainers

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Top Contributors

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Tags

phpdatabasepdo

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