ScyllaDB/CassandraDB Driver for PHP

A modern, feature-rich and highly tunable PHP client library for ScyllaDB and Apache Cassandra 3.0+ using exclusively Cassandra's binary protocol.

This is a wrapper around the [ScyllaDB C/C++ Driver].

Getting the Driver

Binary versions of the driver, available for Linux systems and officialy supported versions of PHP (8.1 and 8.2), can be obtained from GitHub Releases (soon).

You're also can compile the driver by yourself or use Dockerfile with a pre-set environment to run your tests.

What's new in v1.2.0/v1.3.8

• ScyllaDB C/C++ Shard Aware driver implemented
• Support for duration
• Session::execute() and Session::executeAsync() now support a simple string for the query CQL and a simple array for the query execution option
• Full support for Apache Cassandra 3.0+
• Support for tinyint and smallint
• Support for date and time
• Support for user-defined function and aggregate metadata
• Support for secondary index and materialized view metadata

Last Development Status

v1.3.8

• Migration from C to C++
• Removing PHP Build system in favor of CMake
• Upgraded Cassandra\Cluster\Builder class to new PHP argument parsing API
• Reduce memory usage from Cassandra\Cluster\Builder
• Migrate from Behat to PestPHP
• Migrated from TravisCI to Github Actions.

Compatibility

This driver works exclusively with the Cassandra Query Language v3 (CQL3) and Cassandra's native protocol. The current version works with:

• ScyllaDB 4.4.x and 5.x +
• Apache Cassandra versions 3.0+
• PHP 8.1 and 8.2
• 64-bit (x64)
• Thread safe (TS) and non-thread safe (NTS)
• Compilers: GCC 10.0+ and Clang 14+

Getting Help

• If you're able to fix a bug yourself, you can fork the repository and submit a pull request with the fix.
• If you're not able fix a bug yourself, please open an issue , describe it with the most details possible and wait until one of our maintainers join the conversation.

Quick Start

<?php
$cluster   = Cassandra::cluster()                 // connects to localhost by default
                 ->build();
$keyspace  = 'system';
$session   = $cluster->connect($keyspace);        // create session, optionally scoped to a keyspace
$statement = new Cassandra\SimpleStatement(       // also supports prepared and batch statements
    'SELECT keyspace_name, columnfamily_name FROM schema_columnfamilies'
);
$querySent = $session->execute($statement);  
$result    = $querySent->get();                      // wait for the result, with an optional timeout

foreach ($result as $row) {                       // results and rows implement Iterator, Countable and ArrayAccess
    printf("The keyspace %s has a table called %s\n", $row['keyspace_name'], $row['columnfamily_name']);
}

Installation

Before you compile your driver, first check if your php and php-config matches the supported versions. If not, please checkout to the available versions.

sudo update-alternatives --config php
sudo update-alternatives --config php-config

Supported Versions: 8.1 and 8.2.

Next you will learn how to build the driver to:

• Release/Production
• Debug/Development
• Optimized for Production (CAREFUL!!)

Compiling Release Build

This build you can use it for Production purposes.

To build your Driver, you should first download a few dependencies:

Debian/Ubuntu

apt install -y python3 python3-pip unzip mlocate build-essential ninja-build libssl-dev libgmp-dev zlib1g-dev openssl libpcre3-dev php-dev
pip3 install cmake

# Single Line
apt install -y python3 python3-pip unzip mlocate build-essential ninja-build libssl-dev libgmp-dev zlib1g-dev openssl libpcre3-dev php-dev && pip3 install cmake

After that, you can run the build command inside the repository root folder:

cmake --preset Release  && cd out/Release && sudo ninja install

ninja install needs root privileges.

After compiled, you will be at directory scylladb-php-driver/out/Release and at this folder you will need to move the cassandra.so and cassandra.ini to PHP respective folders.

# current directory: scylladb-php-driver/out/Release

# PHP 8.1
sudo cp ../../cassandra.ini /etc/php/8.1/cli/conf.d/10-cassandra.ini
sudo cp cassandra.so /usr/lib/php/20210902/cassandra.so

# PHP 8.2
sudo cp ../../cassandra.ini /etc/php/8.2/cli/conf.d/10-cassandra.ini
sudo cp cassandra.so /usr/lib/php/20220829/cassandra.so

Compiling Development Build

If you want to contribute to the project, you should follow the steps below.

Debian/Ubuntu

apt update -y
apt upgrade -y
apt install -y python3 python3-pip unzip mlocate build-essential ninja-build libssl-dev libgmp-dev zlib1g-dev openssl libpcre3-dev
pip3 install cmake cqlsh # CQL Shell - to connect into your ScyllaDB Cluster
install-php-extensions intl zip pcntl gmp composer
apt-get clean

# Single Line
apt update -y && apt upgrade -y && apt install -y python3 python3-pip unzip mlocate build-essential ninja-build libssl-dev libgmp-dev zlib1g-dev openssl libpcre3-dev && pip3 install cmake cqlsh && install-php-extensions intl zip pcntl gmp composer && apt-get clean

After that, you can run the build command inside the repository root folder:

cmake --preset Debug && cd out/Debug && ninja

We have a "debug.php" file in the root folder that you can use it for try connection with the ScyllaDB Cluster (localhost) and check if is everything ok after change the source code.

Also you can run the PestPHP test suits inside the project and check if the functions are working as expected.

## Debug Base Command
php -d "extension=$(pwd)/out/Debug/cassandra.so" debug.php

## PestPHP Test Suite
./vendor/bin/pest -d "extension=$(pwd)/out/Debug/cassandra.so"

Compiling Optimized Build

The "optimized build" brings a flag that makes the driver runs perfectly with your CPU. So, if you will use it, remember to build it inside the environment that you will use it.

Debian/Ubuntu

apt install -y python3 python3-pip unzip mlocate build-essential ninja-build libssl-dev libgmp-dev zlib1g-dev openssl libpcre3-dev php-dev
pip3 install cmake

# Single Line
apt install -y python3 python3-pip unzip mlocate build-essential ninja-build libssl-dev libgmp-dev zlib1g-dev openssl libpcre3-dev php-dev && pip3 install cmake

The only difference between the Release and Optimized is a flag called -DPHP_SCYLLADB_OPTIMISE_FOR_CURRENT_MACHINE=ON.

cmake --preset Release -DPHP_SCYLLADB_OPTIMISE_FOR_CURRENT_MACHINE=ON && cd out/Release && sudo ninja install

ninja install needs root privileges.

After compiled, you will be at directory scylladb-php-driver/out/Release and at this folder you will need to move the cassandra.so and cassandra.ini to PHP respective folders.

# current directory: scylladb-php-driver/out/Release

# PHP 8.1
sudo cp ../../cassandra.ini /etc/php/8.1/cli/conf.d/10-cassandra.ini
sudo cp cassandra.so /usr/lib/php/20210902/cassandra.so

# PHP 8.2
sudo cp ../../cassandra.ini /etc/php/8.2/cli/conf.d/10-cassandra.ini
sudo cp cassandra.so /usr/lib/php/20220829/cassandra.so

Contributing

Read our contribution policy for a detailed description of the process.

Running tests

Soon.

Copyright

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