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degami/lessql
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LessQL: The agile PHP ORM alternative

v0.4.1(7y ago)0207MITPHPPHP >=5.3.4

Since Dec 18Pushed 8mo agoCompare

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LessQL
======

[](#lessql)

[![Build Status](https://camo.githubusercontent.com/6fbdfde092659a8f8a6ee6dafaec68e860f4cdfc4d68795ec5b468f01b1672ad/68747470733a2f2f7472617669732d63692e6f72672f6d6f727269732f6c657373716c2e7376673f6272616e63683d6d6173746572)](https://travis-ci.org/morris/lessql)

LessQL is a lightweight and performant alternative to Object-Relational Mapping for PHP.

Installation
------------

[](#installation)

Install LessQL via composer: `composer require degami/lessql`. LessQL requires PHP >= 8.0 and PDO.

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

```
// SCHEMA
// user: id, name
// post: id, title, body, date_published, is_published, user_id
// categorization: category_id, post_id
// category: id, title

// Connection
$pdo = new PDO('sqlite:blog.sqlite3');
$db = new LessQL\Database($pdo);

// Find posts, their authors and categories efficiently:
// Eager loading of references happens automatically.
// This example only needs FOUR queries, one for each table.
$posts = $db->post()
	        ->where('is_published', 1)
	        ->orderBy('date_published', 'DESC');

foreach ($posts as $post) {
	$author = $post->user()->fetch();

	foreach ($post->categorizationList()->category() as $category) {
		// ...
	}
}

// Saving complex structures is easy
$row = $db->createRow('post', array(
	'title' => 'News',
	'body' => 'Yay!',
	'categorizationList' => array(
		array(
			'category' => array('title' => 'New Category')
		),
		array('category' => $existingCategoryRow)
	)
));

// Creates a post, a new category, two new categorizations
// and connects them all correctly.
$row->save();
```

Features
--------

[](#features)

- Efficient deep finding through intelligent eager loading
- Constant number of queries, no N+1 problems
- Save complex, nested structures with one method call
- Convention over configuration
- Work closely to your database: LessQL is not an ORM
- No glue code required
- Clean, readable source code
- Fully tested with SQLite3, MySQL and PostgreSQL
- MIT license

Inspired mainly by NotORM, it was written from scratch to provide a clean API and simplified concepts.

[Documentation and Examples](doc)
---------------------------------

[](#documentation-and-examples)

###  Health Score

33

—

LowBetter than 75% of packages

Maintenance43

Moderate activity, may be stable

Popularity11

Limited adoption so far

Community14

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity56

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 75.7% 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 ~133 days

Recently: every ~258 days

Total

13

Last Release

2572d ago

PHP version history (2 changes)v0.1-betaPHP >=5.3.0

v0.3.4PHP >=5.3.4

### Community

Maintainers

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Top Contributors

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