## [Illuminate Database](https://github.com/illuminate/database/tree/master)
The Illuminate Database component is a full database toolkit for PHP, providing an expressive query builder,
ActiveRecord style ORM, and schema builder. It currently supports MySQL, Postgres, SQL Server, and SQLite. It also
serves as the database layer of the Laravel PHP framework.
### Usage Instructions
First, create a new "Capsule" manager instance. Capsule aims to make configuring the library for usage outside of the
Laravel framework as easy as possible.

use Illuminate\Database\Capsule\Manager as Capsule;
$capsule = new Capsule;
$capsule->addConnection([
'driver' => 'mysql',
'host' => 'localhost',
'database' => 'database',
'username' => 'root',
'password' => 'password',
'charset' => 'utf8',
'collation' => 'utf8_unicode_ci',
'prefix' => '',
]);
// Setup the Eloquent ORM... (optional)
$capsule->bootEloquent();
// Set the event dispatcher used by Eloquent models... (optional)
$capsule->setEventDispatcher(...);
// Set the cache manager instance used by connections... (optional)
$capsule->setCacheManager(...);
// Make this Capsule instance available globally via static methods... (optional)
$capsule->setAsGlobal();

Once the Capsule instance has been registered. You may use it like so:
**Using The Query Builder**

$users = Capsule::table('users')->where('votes', '>' 100)->get();

Other core methods may be accessed directly from the Capsule in the same manner as from the DB facade:

$results = Capsule::select('select * from users where id = ?', array(1));

**Using The Schema Builder**

Capsule::schema()->create('users', function($table)
{
$table->increments('id');
$table->string('email')->unique();
$table->timestamps();
});

**Using The Eloquent ORM**

class User extends Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model {}
$users = User::where('votes', '>', 1)->get();