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earthit/storage
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PHP Storage

2.1.0(10mo ago)013.6k2MITPHPPHP >=8.1

Since Oct 26Pushed 10mo ago1 watchersCompare

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PHP Storage
===========

[](#php-storage)

A data access layer.

Goals:

- Glean schema information from a EarthIT\_Schema object.
- Provide a consistent API for fetching from and storing into a database or databases.
- Objects passed in and out are in 'schema form'; transformations to database form are done by the storage layer.
- Allow custom storage layers to do additional transformations.

Design principles:

- Excplicitly state which representations of objects are used where, rather than relying on coincidental similarities between them.

    - e.g. a function that takes an object should indicate in its documentation which form that object should be in.
- Data is separate from the plumbing. Data objects are just arrays (or, conceivably, scalar values. But usually arrays).
- Backend agnostic. May be RDB. May be something else entirely.
- Allow efficient access to collections of objects of the same type.

    - Functions should generally be written to operate on collections to amortize overhead costs.
- Should be able to use query generation and object conversion utilities independently.
- Punting on multi-table joins for now. Easier to just do the joins in PHP by querying by sets of IDs, especially when links cross database boundaries.

Object representations
----------------------

[](#object-representations)

- DB-internal form: actual bits stored in the database. Our PHP code never sees these.
- DB-external form:

    Values from the database with minimal transformations applied to make them representable in PHP. e.g.

    - BIGINTs are represented as strings
    - GEOMETRY values are represented as GeoJSON strings

    Keys correspond exactly to column names.
- Schema form: form as described in schema.txt.

    JSON fields are decoded

    keys are 'plain english' field names.
- JSO form:

    Standard form for JSON REST services. Values will usually be the same as those in schema form, but keys will be 'camelCase' instead of 'plain english'.

    - "JSO" is not a typo. Objects in this form are the objects that would be JSON-encoded without JSON encoding yet applied, hence no 'N'.
    - 'id' field is added to objects that have composite keys.
    - Transforming to/from this form is out of the scope of this library.

###  Health Score

48

—

FairBetter than 95% of packages

Maintenance54

Moderate activity, may be stable

Popularity22

Limited adoption so far

Community13

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity85

Battle-tested with a long release history

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 97.6% 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 ~80 days

Recently: every ~771 days

Total

45

Last Release

315d ago

Major Versions

0.4.10 → 2.0.02024-01-05

PHP version history (2 changes)0.1.0PHP >=5.3

2.0.0PHP >=8.1

### Community

Maintainers

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Top Contributors

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###  Code Quality

TestsPHPUnit

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