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CHAMELEON is a "first-layer" extension of BADGER.
While BADGER provides a low-level interface and abstraction to the databases, CHAMELEON starts to put these abtractions to work.
BADGER is the "First Layer Connection" to the data storage subsystem. It uses PHP PDO to abstract from the databases, and provide SQL-injection protection through the use of PHP PDO Prepared Statements.
CHAMELEON introduces the CO_Collection class (and some similar ones, all based on the tCO_Collection trait) that provide for a hierarchy. The collection classes can aggregate other instances (including other collections).
Because collections are implemented using PHP traits, they are more like a "mixin" class, than a straight hierarchy. Keep this in mind if you will be deriving from them.
The database has the concept of object "owners." These are IDs (numerical), assigned to the "owner" column in the data database rows. The "owner" is another row (of the ID referenced). The relationship is extremely simple, and is really meant as a "triage" for large datasets.
CHAMELEON has a specialization of the CO_LL_Location class (CO_Place), where it adds address elements (and the ability to have Google Geocoding/Reverse Geocoding applied). It further extends that for the United States, with CO_US_Place.
CHAMELEON introduces the KEY/VALUE (sometimes known as DICTIONARY) pattern for storing arbitrary data (the CO_KeyValue class). The data can be quite large, as its stored in the payload column. The key needs to be unique within the database, but the access_class of the row is also figured into the calculation, so you have a bit of flexibility.
You implement CHAMELEON by setting up a pair of databases, and reference them via the CO_Config static class, then instantiate CO_Chameleon.
If you will extend a class, you should keep the base class name (after the "CO_"), because we can do a wildcard lookup to get hierarchies.
CO_Place, CO_KeyValue and CO_Collection / CO_Place_Collection / CO_US_Place_Collection are all designed to be extended, so a UK place might be "CO_UK_Place".
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