Which PHP client library to use with Cassandra?

Question

I've tried phpcassa but what about "Cassandra PHP Client Library" or "SimpleCassie"? Which one would be the best choice?

Answer 1

(Since PHPCassa will no longer be supported and Pandra is abandoned, this question deserves a new answer.)

DataStax PHP Driver for Cassandra is suggested by PHPCassa devs as an alternative that supports CQL, has many excellent features, and is well maintained.

Github and Official website

Update: It now supports PHP 7

Update 2 (2019): It now supports PHP 7.1

Answer 2

I suggest PHPCassa which has

1. An active support group http://groups.google.com/group/phpcassa

2. Nice tutorial on API and Examples @ http://thobbs.github.com/phpcassa/.

3. Provides PHP extension for Thrift Library.

4. Supports all operations as mentioned in Cassandra Wikki

5. Support for composite types has been added [from version 1.0.a.1]

6. Support for cassandra version 1.0 & 1.1 and thrift version 0.8 is added

Download Link https://github.com/thobbs/phpcassa