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derekchan/pg-php
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An implementation of the Postgres TCP protocol in pure PHP

0.0.1(10y ago)1195LGPLPHPPHP >=5.3.0

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PgPhp - An implementation of the postgre protocol in pure PHP
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[](#pgphp---an-implementation-of-the-postgre-protocol-in-pure-php)

A pure PHP PostgreSQL connector that works - sometimes you just need a quick and dirty way to connect to PostgreSQL, but for any reasons you do not have access to the native driver, and you do not care about performance.

*Currently only works in Linux / UNIX-like environment as it depends on "/usr/bin/hexdump"*

### Usage

[](#usage)

See [examples.php](examples.php)

### Installation

[](#installation)

```
composer require derekchan/pg-php

```

From the original author (@BraveSirRobin)
-----------------------------------------

[](#from-the-original-author-bravesirrobin)

### Development status

[](#development-status)

Development status : Toy. Works for me, and it supports the protocol COPY command too, which is nice.

### Motivation

[](#motivation)

I wrote this library as a proof of concept and to learn a bit more about different TCP protocols. The main (only?) reason for wanting to do this is to be able to write an "Event Machine" / "Twisted" type of server where you can do asynchronous I.O. to several different kinds of application endpoint, e.g. RabbitMQ, Postgres, MySql, HTTP, etc. etc.

### Future

[](#future)

Currently, and for the forseeable future I'll be devoting my "open source" time to my [Amqphp project](https://github.com/BraveSirRobin/amqphp), but eventually I'd like to expand this to be a fast, fully asyncronous, PHP-implemented "business process server".

###  Health Score

25

—

LowBetter than 37% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity12

Limited adoption so far

Community11

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity48

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 85% 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

Unknown

Total

1

Last Release

3938d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/8f12e8c826c01f15e4e20eb202ae22d2481020f8580e28805ea46a20778033f8?d=identicon)[derekchan](/maintainers/derekchan)

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Top Contributors

[![BraveSirRobin](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/549224?v=4)](https://github.com/BraveSirRobin "BraveSirRobin (34 commits)")[![derek9gag](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/14237112?v=4)](https://github.com/derek9gag "derek9gag (4 commits)")[![derekchan](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1776133?v=4)](https://github.com/derekchan "derekchan (2 commits)")

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