Initialization

This is a guide on how to initialize the SurrealDB SDK for PHP. If you haven’t installed the SDK yet in your PHP project, You can go to getting started to learn how to install the SDK.

include_once __DIR__ . '/vendor/autoload.php';

When we have imported the Surreal class, we can initialize a new instance of SurrealDB. After this is done we can make use of certain methods to interact with the database.

$db = new Surreal();

Then we connect to the database. The connect method takes the URL of the database as an argument. The URL can be either http or ws protocol.

$db->connect("http://127.0.0.1:8000/rpc");

$db->connect("ws://127.0.0.1:8000/rpc");

In order to send queries to the database, we need to set the namespace and database for the current connection you want to interact with.

$db->use([
	"namespace" => "test",
	"database" => "test"
]);

We should now be successfully connected to the database. In the next article we will cover authenticating our connection.