Shale Data Manager is an array storage system using flat file storage. Shale works in layers.

• High performance Shale writes to the local file system, not a SQL or equivielent server. Instead of depending on the latency of TCP/IP and then the latency of the database software, shale depends on the host OS's file system.
• Collision Safe Shale will lock files using native PHP functions, and will wait for a file to be released before writing/reading. Since PHP will obey the lock, any functions trying to read any locked database file will fail. This lock works across all PHP processes.
• Unix/Windows ready Shale will work in any enviorment and has been tested thoroughly.
• PHP 7.0 Ready

• Array = loadDB(String location) - Loads an array from a location See more about location syntax below.
• Array = listDB(String location) - Lists all databases inside a location.
• Boolean = putDB(Array Data, String location) - Saves array into a location. Returns true if successful.
• Boolean = dropDB(String location) - Deletes a database from a location. Returns true if successful.

$data = loadDB('place\of\data'); //These are the folders the data will be stored in seperated by backslashes. Think of it as a map of where your data is. $data will contain an array of the database.

$arrayofdatabases = listDB('place\of'); //Lets pretend inside the folder (place\of) there are 3 databases named "data", "ashleymadison", "profiles".

foreach($arrayofdatabases as $database) {
    echo 'Database name: '.$database.', And all of its data:<br>';
    print_r(loadDB('place\of\\'.$database));
}
/* May return something like this

    Database name: data, And all of its data:
    Array
    (
        [a] => apple
        [b] => banana
        [c] => Array
            (
                [0] => x
                [1] => y
                [2] => z
            )
    )
    And will then cycle through "ashleymadison" and then "profiles"
*/

$data = array(
    "a" => "apple",
    "b" => "banana",
    "c" => array(
        "x",
        "y",
        "z"
    )
);

putDB($data, 'place\of\data'); //Will place the contents of $data into the database at the specified location of 'place\of\data'.

Functions below are used by the functions above unless specified otherwise.

• String = encrypt(String Data, String Encryption Key) - Encryption key must be 16/24/32 characters long. Encrypts string into an encrypted string.
• String = decrypt(String Data, String Encryption Key) - Unencrypts the encrypted string.

require('shaledatamanager.lib.php');