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A lightweight query builder and ORM for PHP. ⚡ Fast, intuitive, and flexible — without heavy configuration or boilerplate.

🚀 Hierarchical models — benefit from ORM features without over-configuration
🔎 Fluent query builder with modern criteria-finder pattern
📦 Zero configuration — no need to describe DB schema
🗄️ Works with multiple databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, MSSQL, SQLite)
🧹 Lightweight — tidy code, no extra dependencies
🛠️ Developer-friendly — SQL profiling & logging

Why StormPHP Queries?

Most ORMs are either too heavy or too limited. StormPHP Queries strikes the balance:

✅ No configuration required — just connect and start querying
✅ Clean domain models — keep your DDD aggregates free from persistence concerns
✅ Fluent and flexible API — build simple or complex queries step by step
✅ Lightweight and dependency-free — fast to learn, easy to maintain

If you need the power of an ORM combined with the clarity of a query builder — StormPHP Queries is for you.

Quick Start

Installation

composer require stormmore/queries

Establishing a Connection

StormPHP Queries uses PDO:

use Stormmore\Queries\ConnectionFactory;
use Stormmore\Queries\StormQueries;

$connection = ConnectionFactory::createFromString("dsn", "user", "password");
$queries = new StormQueries($connection);

Minimal Example

// Select
$product = $queries->find('products', ['id' => 5]);

// Insert
$id = $queries->insert('products', [
    'name' => 'Golden watch',
    'price' => 465
]);

// Update
$queries->update('products', ['id' => $id], ['name' => 'Renamed product']);

// Delete
$queries->delete('products', ['id' => $id]);

Basic Queries

Find product by ID:

$product = $queries->find('products', ['id' => 5]);

Find all products in a category:

$products = $queries->findAll('products', ['category_id' => 10]);

Count products:

$count = $queries->count('products', ['in_sale' => true]);

Check existence:

$exists = $queries->exist('products', ['id' => 5]);

Map records to a custom class:

use Stormmore\Queries\Mapper\Map;

$product = $queries->find('products', ['id' => 5], Map::select([
    'product_id'   => 'id',
    'product_name' => 'name'
], UserProduct::class));

ORM

StormPHP Queries supports mapping query results to classes. Example:

$customers = $queries
    ->select('customers c', Map::select([
        'customer_id'   => 'id',
        'customer_name' => 'name'
    ]))
    ->leftJoin('orders o', 'o.customer_id = c.customer_id', Map::many("orders", [
        'order_id' => 'id'
    ]))
    ->findAll();

For the ORM to work without additional configuration:

each record must have a unique identifier (by default id, but this can be changed using the classId parameter),
tables in the query must have aliases.

This allows StormQueries to map records to user-defined objects, even if the key fields differ from the standard id.

$customer = $this->queries
    ->select('customers c', Map::select([
        'customer_id',
        'customer_name'
    ], Customer::class, classId: 'customer_id'))
    ->leftJoin('orders o', 'o.customer_id = c.customer_id', Map::many("orders", [
        'order_id'
    ], Order::class, classId: 'order_id'))
    ->where('c.customer_id', 90)
    ->find();

foreach ($customer->orders as $order) {
    echo $customer->customer_name . " - " . $order->id;
}

Guide

Looking for more? The full guide includes detailed sections on Select Queries, ORM, Subqueries, Insert/Update/Delete, Profiling, and more.

👉 Read here: Full Documentation – docs/guide.md

Profiling

You can log queries using callbacks:

$connection->onSuccess(function(string $sql, DateInterval $interval) {
    // log successful queries
});

$connection->onFailure(function(string $sql, DateInterval $interval, Exception $e) {
    // log failed queries
});

Notice

StormPHP Queries uses PDO.
Tested with PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, SQL Server, SQLite.
Requires PHP 8.0+.

Tests

Run tests using Docker:

docker-compose up
./run.mysql.cmd

Examples

Check the tests directory for more detailed examples.

Contributing

Contributions are welcome!

Fork the repository
Create a feature branch (git checkout -b feature/your-feature)
Commit your changes (git commit -m "Add new feature")
Push to your branch (git push origin feature/your-feature)
Open a Pull Request

Author

Michał Czerski If you have questions or ideas, feel free to reach out on GitHub.

License

StormPHP Queries is licensed under the MIT License.

stormmore / queries

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