SymQL
Symphony Query Language
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Description
Querying entries within your own PHP applications can be a hit-and-miss affair. Building the JOINs of field tables is time consuming, but a necessary evil even if you want to use the EntryManager class (which requires you to pass JOINs and WHERE strings of SQL to it). SymQL continues what DatabaseManipulator started, and is intended as a full replacement.
Essentially SymQL is a wrapper for the EntryManager class. It shares many similarities with Data Sources and it uses the same "filter" syntax to compile its WHERE queries. It adds additional functionality beyond Data Sources in that it allows you to perform OR queries between field (e.g. WHERE (name='Alistair' OR name='Allen') AND published='yes').
The primary aim of this extension is to provide human-readable object-oriented access to Symphony entries to make building custom data sources a whole lot easier.
Intended for developers only. Refer to the README for full API usage.
Note this requires a Symphony version greater than 2.0.6.