NEW: Released Tephlon v1_1: More features, bugfixes and 3 new useful data structures!

NEW: Tutorial wiki page Usage, Codeigniter integration

What is Tephlon

Tephlon is a multi-driver (for now FileSystem and MySQL) PHP library that adds a persistence layer to your PHP objects, arrays or variables.

It's mainly file based, but adding a new driver for other kind of internal/external storage is really simple.

It is also very easy to integrate as an external library in popular PHP frameworks like Codeigniter.

Reason behind

Many websites use SQL without a real reason, just for implementing basic persistence of data.

For example: why would you put users into a SQL table if 90% of your SQL selects on the Users table will have a "WHERE <primary key> = <value>"?

Having SQL in your project puts you to:

• Be prone to SQL injections
• Writing a lot of ORM code just to map objects to SQL
• Writing a lot of ORM code just to map SQL to objects
• Complicated and difficult to automate database dumps for backup.

Status of development

Version 1.1 is generally available (just Filesystem driver). MySQL driver works in the SVN version.