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acpmasquerade/sms-counter-php
=============================

SMS Counter PHP Class Library which detects encoding of an SMS message text, counts the characters as per the encoding and gives page limit information.

v1.0.5(11y ago)23125.6k—0%18[2 issues](https://github.com/acpmasquerade/sms-counter-php/issues)[3 PRs](https://github.com/acpmasquerade/sms-counter-php/pulls)MITPHPPHP >=5.3.0

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SMS Counter (PHP)
=================

[](#sms-counter-php)

Character counter for SMS Messages Original insipration : [danxexe/sms-counter](https://github.com/danxexe/sms-counter)

[![Build Status](https://camo.githubusercontent.com/a873644f602cf759455eb6f70a15e4b820a0da2e70dfdf3eb09ff90fa57d8412/68747470733a2f2f7472617669732d63692e6f72672f6163706d6173717565726164652f736d732d636f756e7465722d7068702e7376673f6272616e63683d6d6173746572)](https://travis-ci.org/acpmasquerade/sms-counter-php)

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

```
SMSCounter::count('some-string-to-be-counted');
```

which returns

```
stdClass Object
(
	[encoding] => GSM_7BIT
	[length] => 25
	[per_message] => 160
	[remaining] => 135
	[messages] => 1
)

```

Installation
------------

[](#installation)

`sms-counter-php` is available via [composer](http://getcomposer.org) on [packagist](https://packagist.org/packages/acpmasquerade/sms-counter-php).

```
{
    "require": {
        "instasent/sms-counter-php": "dev-master"
    }
}
```

### Install from Instasent repo

[](#install-from-instasent-repo)

##### (PS: Separately maintained and slightly deviated.) Please check their documentation before updating your existing installation.

[](#ps-separately-maintained-and-slightly-deviated-please-check-their-documentation-before-updating-your-existing-installation)

`sms-counter-php` is available via [composer](http://getcomposer.org) on [packagist](https://packagist.org/packages/instasent/sms-counter-php).

```
{
    "require": {
        "instasent/sms-counter-php": "dev-master"
    }
}
```

License
-------

[](#license)

SMS Counter (PHP) is released under the [MIT License](LICENSE.txt)

###  Health Score

38

—

LowBetter than 85% of packages

Maintenance18

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity42

Moderate usage in the ecosystem

Community14

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity62

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 90.5% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~82 days

Total

5

Last Release

4017d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/3e7ea4da05a588deb3bd00a186b8c4ad90b947ef054582a93594f08e400ffe01?d=identicon)[acpmasquerade](/maintainers/acpmasquerade)

---

Top Contributors

[![acpmasquerade](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1309805?v=4)](https://github.com/acpmasquerade "acpmasquerade (19 commits)")[![carlbergman](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/30546?v=4)](https://github.com/carlbergman "carlbergman (2 commits)")

---

Tags

smscountergsm

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