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samayo/styrofoam
================

A tiny pdo wrapper class

2.0.0(10y ago)10212[1 PRs](https://github.com/samayo/styrofoam/pulls)MITPHPPHP >=5.3.0

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Styrofoam
---------

[](#styrofoam)

A tiny PDO wrapper class, for simple CRUD operation.

Install
-------

[](#install)

Using composer

```
$ composer require samayo/styrofoam:1.0.*
```

Using git

```
$ git clone https://github.com/samayo/styrofoam.git
```

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

```
require 'path/to/styrofoam.php';

$db = new Styrofoam\Database(
  'mysql:host=localhost; dbname=db-name;  charset=utf8', 'db-user', 'db-pass', [
  PDO::ATTR_ERRMODE => PDO::ERRMODE_EXCEPTION,
  PDO::ATTR_DEFAULT_FETCH_MODE => PDO::FETCH_ASSOC
]);
```

Examples
--------

[](#examples)

#### SELECT

[](#select)

```
// returns $select with value of query
$select = $db->select('SELECT * FROM users WHERE id = ?', [145]);
```

#### INSERT

[](#insert)

```
// returns value lastInsertId() on success
$insert = $db->insert('INSERT INTO users (lastname) VALUES (?)', ['robin']);
```

#### DELETE

[](#delete)

```
// returns $delete as boolean
$delete = $db->delete('DELETE FROM users WHERE id = ?', [456]);
```

#### UPDATE

[](#update)

```
// returns $update as boolean
$update = $db->update('UPDATE cars SET color = ? WHERE model = ?', ['blue', 'Toyota']);
```

###  Health Score

29

—

LowBetter than 59% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity14

Limited adoption so far

Community9

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity63

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% 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 ~102 days

Recently: every ~0 days

Total

7

Last Release

3388d ago

Major Versions

1.0.0 → 2.0.02015-06-07

0.0.1 → 1.0.12017-02-07

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/8224efc6c85f9ed635239195b886766f000c05d279ba93124dcc361c235efdf7?d=identicon)[samayo](/maintainers/samayo)

---

Top Contributors

[![samayo](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/5304093?v=4)](https://github.com/samayo "samayo (12 commits)")

---

Tags

crud-applicationdatabase-accesspdopdo-wrapperormpdowrapper

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