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vaffel/dao
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PHP Data Access Object library

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PHP Data Access Object library
==============================

[](#php-data-access-object-library)

The DAO library makes interacting with database objects easy and abstracts away the hassle of keeping memcached and elasticsearch data up to date when making changes to the data.

Installation
============

[](#installation)

Add `"vafel/dao": "dev-master"` to the dependencies list of your project.

Setup
=====

[](#setup)

Before the DaoFactory is used to retrieve DAO instances, the DAO must be set up;

```
// Set up read only mysql
Vaffel\Dao\DaoFactory::setServiceLayer(
    Vaffel\Dao\DaoFactory::SERVICE_MYSQL,
    Vaffel\Dao\Models\Dao\MySQL::DB_TYPE_RO,
    $roPdo // PDO instance, with read-only access
);

// Set up read+write mysql
Vaffel\Dao\DaoFactory::setServiceLayer(
    Vaffel\Dao\DaoFactory::SERVICE_MYSQL,
    $rwPdo, // PDO instance, with write access
    Vaffel\Dao\Models\Dao\MySQL::DB_TYPE_RW
);
```

In addition to the RO and RW MySQL service, elasticsearch and memcached service layers needs to be set up;

```
Vaffel\Dao\DaoFactory::setServiceLayer(
    Vaffel\Dao\DaoFactory::SERVICE_MEMCACHED,
    $memcached // Memcached instance
);

Vaffel\Dao\DaoFactory::setServiceLayer(
    Kidsa\DaoFactory::SERVICE_ELASTIC_SEARCH,
    $elasticClient // Elastica\Client instance
);
```

Usage
=====

[](#usage)

After the initial setup, you can retrieve DAO instances for classes in your application by statically calling `getDao` on the DaoFactory class.

```
$userDao = DaoFactory::getDao('MyApplication\Models\User');

// Return user with id 1337
$user = $userDao->fetch(1337);

// Set first name on the returned user
$user->setFirstName('Kristoffer');

// Persist the updated user object
$userDao->save($user);
```

The class name of the DAO class is found by naively adding `Dao\` after the last backslash in the model name.

###  Health Score

24

—

LowBetter than 32% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity2

Limited adoption so far

Community8

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity58

Maturing project, gaining track record

 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

Unknown

Total

1

Last Release

3986d ago

### Community

Maintainers

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Top Contributors

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###  Code Quality

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