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shadowsky/database
==================

The Illuminate Database package.

v7.24.0(5y ago)06MITPHPPHP ^7.2.5

Since Jul 5Pushed 5y agoCompare

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Illuminate Database
-------------------

[](#illuminate-database)

The Illuminate Database component is a full database toolkit for PHP, providing an expressive query builder, ActiveRecord style ORM, and schema builder. It currently supports MySQL, Postgres, SQL Server, and SQLite. It also serves as the database layer of the Laravel PHP framework.

### Usage Instructions

[](#usage-instructions)

First, create a new "Capsule" manager instance. Capsule aims to make configuring the library for usage outside of the Laravel framework as easy as possible.

```
use Illuminate\Database\Capsule\Manager as Capsule;

$capsule = new Capsule;

$capsule->addConnection([
    'driver'    => 'mysql',
    'host'      => 'localhost',
    'database'  => 'database',
    'username'  => 'root',
    'password'  => 'password',
    'charset'   => 'utf8',
    'collation' => 'utf8_unicode_ci',
    'prefix'    => '',
]);

// Set the event dispatcher used by Eloquent models... (optional)
use Illuminate\Events\Dispatcher;
use Illuminate\Container\Container;
$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();
```

> `composer require "illuminate/events"` required when you need to use observers with Eloquent.

Once the Capsule instance has been registered. You may use it like so:

**Using The Query Builder**

```
$users = Capsule::table('users')->where('votes', '>', 100)->get();
```

Other core methods may be accessed directly from the Capsule in the same manner as from the DB facade:

```
$results = Capsule::select('select * from users where id = ?', array(1));
```

**Using The Schema Builder**

```
Capsule::schema()->create('users', function($table)
{
    $table->increments('id');
    $table->string('email')->unique();
    $table->timestamps();
});
```

**Using The Eloquent ORM**

```
class User extends Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model {}

$users = User::where('votes', '>', 1)->get();
```

For further documentation on using the various database facilities this library provides, consult the [Laravel framework documentation](http://laravel.com/docs).

###  Health Score

32

—

LowBetter than 69% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity4

Limited adoption so far

Community19

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity78

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 71.9% 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 ~8 days

Recently: every ~1 days

Total

350

Last Release

2152d ago

Major Versions

v6.18.25 → v7.19.12020-07-10

v6.18.28 → v7.22.22020-07-27

v6.18.33 → v7.23.12020-08-06

v6.18.34 → v7.23.22020-08-06

6.x-dev → v7.24.02020-08-07

PHP version history (8 changes)v1.0.0PHP >=5.3.0

v4.2.0-BETA1PHP >=5.4.0

v5.1.1PHP >=5.5.9

v5.3.0PHP >=5.6.4

v5.5.0PHP >=7.0

v5.6.0PHP ^7.1.3

v6.0.0PHP ^7.2

v7.0.0PHP ^7.2.5

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/16201834?v=4)[shadowsky](/maintainers/shadowsky)[@Shadowsky](https://github.com/Shadowsky)

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