Prelude¶

The core package is the framework-independent part of Small Swoole Entity Manager.

It provides:

pooled MySQL, PostgreSQL and Small Swoole DB connections;
an EntityManagerFactory that creates and caches managers per factory instance;
attribute-based entity and relation metadata;
select, update and delete query builders;
synchronous entity persistence and batched persistence threads;
lifecycle callbacks;
database layers for ordered schema migrations;
entity backup and change detection;
form generation through small/forms.

The current core line requires PHP 8.3 or newer. The supplied development setup uses PHP 8.4 and Swoole 6.