BetterPDO (alpha)

Optimized sql libary for php! (currently only for MySQL)

With that libary, you can save a lot of time, lines of code and spare nerves! It provides easy and compact methods for faster working.

➕ Features

• Higher code clarity
• Easier to store connection data in an other file
• Use DatabaseManager::class to store database connections, instead of global variables or extra methods for accessing the database
• bindParam() automatically treats numeric values as integers (no intval() and PDO::PARAM_INT required)

📃 Requirements

• PHP 7.0 or newer
• PHP extensions pdo and pdo-mysql

↕️ Vanilla-PDO vs Better-PDO

Create a connection:

Vanilla-PDO:

$mainDatabase = new PDO("mysql:host=localhost;dbname=foo;charset=utf8", 'root', 'bar'); 

Better-PDO:

DatabaseManager::registerConnection('main', new BetterPDO(array(
    'host' => 'localhost',
    'database' => 'foo',
    'username' => 'root',
    'password' => 'bar',
    'charset' => 'utf8'
)));

Fetch from a table:

Vanilla-PDO:

function getUser($userId) {
    global $mainDatabase;
    $sql = 'SELECT * FROM `user` WHERE `user_id` < :userId';
    $stmt = $mainDatabase->prepare($sql);
    $stmt->bindParam(':userId', $userId);
    $stmt->execute();
    return $stmt->fetch(PDO::FETCH_ASSOC);
}

Better-PDO:

function getUser($userId) {
    $sql = 'SELECT * FROM `user` WHERE `user_id` < :userId';
    return DatabaseManager::getConnection('main')
        ->createStatement($sql)
        ->bindParam(':userId', $userId)
        ->fetch(FetchStyle::ASSOC);
}

💾 Install

Use composer (recommend)

composer config maaxgr.betterpdo vcs https://github.com/MaaxGr/BetterPDO
composer require maaxgr.betterpdo:dev-master
composer update

Use direct Download

1. Clone project or download all files of src/ directory
2. require_once('/autoload.php');