A Php library for reading through the database structure. Useful for generating models based on a given Database structure. For relational databases.

• PostgreSQL
• MySQL
• SQL Server

composer require angujo/dbreader

After getting the library into your project, need to setup the database connection. You can do a static connection setup by modifying the config file at src/configs.php

return [        
  'dbms' => 'postgres',  // postgres/pgsql for postgres, mysql for MySQL
  'host' => 'localhost',  
  'port' => '5432',  
  'database' => 'dvdrental',  
  'username' => 'postgres',  
  'password' => 'postgres',  
  'charset' => 'utf8mb4',  
  'options' => [],  
];

On the fly by calling the Config class methods; Setup at once

Config::dns($dns_string,$username,$password); 
// E.g. Config::dns('mysql:dbname=test;host:localhost;...','root','...');

or you can always change configuration on the fly;

Config::dbms($dbms);
Config::host($host);
Config::port($port);
Config::database($database);
Config::username($username);
Config::password($password);

and always retrieve details by calling either. to get host call Config::host(); If you already have a PDO connection running set it up for connection as

Connection::setPDO($pdo,'client');

Get current Database

  $db= Connection::currentDatabase(); // $db = [Database()]

You can always call any database by initiating a new database;

$db=new Database($db_name);

Get tables;

$tables=$db->tables; // An array|Collection of tables i.e. DBTable[]|Tightenco\Collect\Support\Collection

You can also get all columns for a given database: $db->columns; // DBColumn[] For a given table, you can retrieve columns using $table->columns To get relations from a given table; one to one relations

$table->$foreign_keys_one_to_one; // returns ForeignKey[]

one to many relations

$table->$foreign_keys_one_to_many; // returns ForeignKey[]

WILL DO MORE DOCUMENTATION WITH TIME ... If interested, check out the code for variables accessible via the respective classes...