title: connecting to cassandra from PHP
body: <p>I have found lots of questions on here and other sites about what php libraries to use for connecting to cassandra but most of the questions are 1 or more years old.</p>
  
  <p>I have also found lots of different libraries for connecting to cassandra but most of those have not been committed to for over 2 years. </p>
  
  <p>The PDO php library <a href="https://code.google.com/a/apache-extras.org/p/cassandra-pdo" rel="noreferrer">https://code.google.com/a/apache-extras.org/p/cassandra-pdo</a> seems to be the one most talked about but again this has had 0 changes since 2012.</p>
  
  <p>So my question is what are people using and why?</p>
  
  <p>Ive also seen this <a href="http://evseevnn.github.io/php-cassandra-binary" rel="noreferrer">http://evseevnn.github.io/php-cassandra-binary</a> which at first glance to me looks pretty promasing but it is really new and iam worried it may not be supported in the long term as appears to be the case with lots of others.</p>