Comments on: Practical PHP Database Wrapper: Crystal

By: Stefan Gabos

Stefan Gabos — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 08:12:03 +0000

Have a look at Zebra_Database – an advanced, compact (one-file only), lightweight, MySQL database wrapper built upon PHP’s MySQL extension. It has a fantastic debug interface, supports transactions, and provides ways for caching query results either by saving cached data on the disk, or by using memcache. Also, has great documentation – http://stefangabos.ro/php-libraries/zebra-database/

By: Jorj

Jorj — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 19:55:54 +0000

Nice concept, poorly written. Static methods all over, no documentation. Non-configurable database connection parameters except that in the file it comes with so no chance to include it in existent projects. Overall :it lacks that 5% to make it usable.

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 21:25:10 +0000

Why you dont use the Php native solution PDO? It’s faster than every and has already a good way to build ‘secured’ query.

For instance in my framework I got something like

query(‘SELECT DISTINCT * FROM toto WHERE time = ?’,1243333);

query function has just 10 lines of code… Honestly your DB framework looks really “big” (91 files , 400Ko … ) ….

By: Fritz

Fritz — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 02:30:37 +0000

How safe is this? In the sense of SQL injection mainly, does it protect against it in the same manner as parametrized queries do?

By: Martin Rusev

Martin Rusev — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 21:34:17 +0000

This bug is fixed in version 0.2.3. Also I am working on a bug tracker and I will add it to the site very soon.

Best Regards,
Martin Rusev

By: Jim

Jim — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 12:52:10 +0000

I can’t get the manipulation class to load. I keep getting Fatal error: Class ‘Crystal_Helper’ not found in includes\Crystal\Crystal\Manipulation\Mysql\Create.php on line 0

By: Jim

Jim — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 01:11:40 +0000

Looks nice. I am going to do some tests over the next few days. Thanks!

By: Gav

Gav — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 19:29:18 +0000

Cheers Martin!! Thanks for the quick response – I have been looking for something like this for ages!! I am really impressed with everything you have done so far – I will be using this in the near future for certain..

Keep up the good work!

By: Martin Rusev

Martin Rusev — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 18:33:20 +0000

Hi, I saw the problem with the fetch_all() function. You can download the 0.3 branch from github – http://github.com/martinrusev/Crystal/tree/0.3

I am working on a fix and I will release version 0.2.2 after a few hours.

Best regards,
Martin Rusev

By: Gav

Gav — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 09:58:20 +0000

I can’t seem to get the fetchAll function to work for me.. anyone else having any similar issues..