Pipe is a simple ORM for PHP that makes use of the ActiveRecord pattern. It was written for cases when you don't want to adhere to an MVC pattern with models, something that the current ORM solutions do not provide.

Pipe is built for MySQL.

• [mandatory] PHP version 5.3 (developed using 5.3.1)

Pipe makes use of PDO for querying the database.

Make sure you have the drivers available for MySQL.

<?php

require 'Pipe.php';

Pipe::initialize('username:password@host/table');

//Select the `users` table
$users = Pipe::table('users');

//Select row `2` from `id` column
//Short hand for: $users->select('*')->where('id', 2)->get()
$users->get_by_id(2);

//Change first name to Rob
$users->first_name = 'Rob';

//Make the change
$users->save();

?>

Documentation is generated directly from the source code using PhpDocumentator.

To regenerate: rm -r docs && phpdoc -c phpdoc.ini

Pipe uses SimpleTest for unit testing. Run php -f AllTests.php in the tests folder.

Copyright 2010, Robert Crowe hello@vivalacrowe.com

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