BasePHP is a small, general PHP class library. It’s written to take advantage of the new features offered by PHP 5.3 which, given my current work-rate, will probably be in wide-use by the time this library is complete.

Main features:

• Object oriented database access with support for:
  • lazy connection via instance registry
  • smart(er) automatic value quoting
  • exception wrapping for catching constraint violations
  • automatic conversion/instantiation of boolean/date types
  • table creation
  • migrations
• Date & time classes
• Powerful “rewire” feature which automatically creates wrapper objects for file uploads and submitted date/currency values
• Currency class
• ISO country/language data
• MIME type handling
• Image class supporting chainable operations, resizing, cropping and filtering (maybe coming back soon)

BasePHP is designed to use class autoloading – if you don’t like this, this library isn’t for you.

Very simple, just copy the contents of the “inc” directory into your include root. You’ll probably want to add a couple of lines to your master include file to make your life easier – just check out ‘configure.php’ for details.

BasePHP currently includes no files intended for deployment to the webroot (stylesheets, scripts, images etc.). This may change in a future version if I start adding support for JavaScript libraries. Don’t hold your breath, however.

You can run the tests directly from the shell. For example:

To report bugs, email me at jason@onehackoranother.com
If you’d like to contribute, drop me a line at the same address, or fork the project and send a pull request.