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nehalvpatel/synapse
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Synapse saves sessions to the database

1.0.1(12y ago)116MITPHPPHP >=5.4.0

Since Mar 19Pushed 12y ago1 watchersCompare

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Synapse saves sessions to the database.

### Requirements

[](#requirements)

- PHP 5.4 and up
- MySQL

### Getting Started

[](#getting-started)

1. Install composer
2. Add the [package](https://packagist.org/packages/nehalvpatel/synapse) to your composer.json
3. Run composer

### Example

[](#example)

1. Pass a PDO object to the handler class (a table called "sessions" will be auto generated)
2. Set the save handler to use the class
3. Start the session

```
  require 'vendor/autoload.php';

  $Synapse = new \Synapse\Handler(new PDO("mysql:host=" . $db_host . ";dbname=" . $db_name, $db_username, $db_password));
  session_set_save_handler($Synapse, true);
  session_start();

  $_SESSION["user_id"] = "1";
```

###  Health Score

26

—

LowBetter than 41% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity7

Limited adoption so far

Community9

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity59

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 91.7% 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 ~0 days

Total

2

Last Release

4486d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/b18cd6b260727c07d53d98a5435caea3f79463e0a7e83f95bb37ae6e0f48df24?d=identicon)[nehalvpatel](/maintainers/nehalvpatel)

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Top Contributors

[![nehalvpatel](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/159021?v=4)](https://github.com/nehalvpatel "nehalvpatel (11 commits)")[![sobit](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1245542?v=4)](https://github.com/sobit "sobit (1 commits)")

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Tags

databasesessionsOOP

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