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jwh315/laravel-capsule-wrapper
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Use the Eloquent ORM outside of the Laravel Framework with an existing PDO database connection.

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laravel-capsule-wrapper
=======================

[](#laravel-capsule-wrapper)

Use the Eloquent ORM outside of the Laravel Framework with an existing PDO database connection.

### disclaimer

[](#disclaimer)

This project is currently a proof of concept, without tests. I have manually tested it using a few standard Laravel operations with success, but I cannot currently vouch for its robustness in a real world PHP application.

One of the main issues I have not fully fleshed out is the database name parameter that you would normally pass into an eloquent connection. I have chosen to omit this parameter as my use case requires a database connection, with the ability to access multiple databases on the same connection. From my limited testing, this hasn't posed a problem, but I could be missing something.

Lastly, this only works for Mysql currently. This is done in `CapsuleManager\Wrapper\DatabaseManager::addDefaultConnection()`, theoretically you should be able to swap out any of the other `Illuminate\Database` connection classes as needed.

### installation

[](#installation)

```
composer require jwh315/laravel-capsule-wrapper

```

### usage

[](#usage)

This is pretty much the same as the usage instructions on the [Illuminate\\Database](https://github.com/illuminate/database)repository. It should be noted that I have not tested the `Schema Builder`

```
use CapsuleManager\Wrapper\Manager;
use Illuminate\Container\Container;
use Illuminate\Events\Dispatcher;

$dsn = "mysql:host=" . DBHOST;
$pdo = new \PDO($dsn, DBUSER, DBPASS);

$capsule = new Manager($pdo);

// Set the event dispatcher used by Eloquent models... (optional)
$capsule->setEventDispatcher(new Dispatcher(new Container));

// Make this Capsule instance available globally via static methods... (optional)
$capsule->setAsGlobal();

// Setup the Eloquent ORM... (optional; unless you've used setEventDispatcher())
$capsule->bootEloquent();

$t = $capsule::table('mysql.db')
			 ->where('Host', 'localhost')
			 ->get();

dd($t);

```

I also added a static accessor to encapsulate all of this boilerplate inside of the wrapper class, if you are going to use the defaults settings in the above example, this will also work.

```
use CapsuleManager\Wrapper\Manager as Capsule;

$dsn = "mysql:host=" . DBHOST;
$pdo = new \PDO($dsn, DBUSER, DBPASS);

$capsule = Capsule::init($pdo);

$t = $capsule::table('mysql.db')
			 ->where('Host', 'localhost')
			 ->get();

dd($t);

```

Using the Eloquent ORM

This is exactly the same as you would expect, except as mentioned above, I did not add a way to set the database name so you will have to set it explicitly

```
//initialize the capsule manager
use CapsuleManager\Wrapper\Manager as Capsule;

$dsn = "mysql:host=" . DBHOST;
$pdo = new \PDO($dsn, DBUSER, DBPASS);

$capsule = Capsule::init($pdo);

//user model example
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;

class User extends Model
{
	//this needs to be set on all your models
	protected $table = 'test.users';
}

//using the user model
dd(User::all()->last()->login);

```

###  Health Score

31

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LowBetter than 68% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity30

Limited adoption so far

Community10

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity53

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% of commits — single point of failure

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**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

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**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

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Total

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Last Release

3249d ago

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