refactoring for dependency injection and testability.

laravel/database/connector.php

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+<?php namespace Laravel\Database;
+
+use PDO;
+
+abstract class Connector {
+
+	/**
+	 * The PDO connection options.
+	 *
+	 * @var array
+	 */
+	public $options = array(
+		PDO::ATTR_CASE              => PDO::CASE_LOWER,
+		PDO::ATTR_ERRMODE           => PDO::ERRMODE_EXCEPTION,
+		PDO::ATTR_ORACLE_NULLS      => PDO::NULL_NATURAL,
+		PDO::ATTR_STRINGIFY_FETCHES => false,
+		PDO::ATTR_EMULATE_PREPARES  => false,
+	);
+
+	/**
+	 * Establish a PDO database connection.
+	 *
+	 * @param  array  $config
+	 * @return PDO
+	 */
+	abstract public function connect($config);
+
+}