Quick Start
This guide will show you the bare essentials to get up and running with php-activerecord. I will assume you have downloaded the library into your include_path in a directory called php-activerecord.
The first steps are to include the library and define our database connection:
require_once 'php-activerecord/ActiveRecord.php'; ActiveRecord\Config::initialize(function($cfg) { $cfg->set_model_directory('models'); $cfg->set_connections(array( 'development' => 'mysql://username:password@localhost/database_name')); });
Next, lets create a model for a table called users. We'll save this class in the file models/User.php.
class User extends ActiveRecord\Model { }
That's it! Now you can access the users table thru the User model.
# create Tito $user = User::create(array('name' => 'Tito', 'state' => 'VA')); # read Tito $user = User::find_by_name('Tito'); # update Tito $user->name = 'Tito Jr'; $user->save(); # delete Tito $user->delete();
Easy, huh?