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aedart/athenaeum-utils
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Offers a few utility components that are used by the Athenaeum packages

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Athenaeum Utils
===============

[](#athenaeum-utils)

This package offers a few utility components. They are used throughout many of the Athenaeum packages, yet you can choose to make use of them, as you see fit.

Example
-------

[](#example)

```
use Aedart\Utils\Json;
use Aedart\Utils\Version;

// Obtain version of installed package
$version = Version::package('aedart/athenaeum-utils');

// Json encode ~ throws exception if encoding fails
echo Json::encode([
    'version' => $version
]);
```

Documentation
-------------

[](#documentation)

Please read the [official documentation](https://aedart.github.io/athenaeum/) for additional information.

Repository
----------

[](#repository)

The mono repository is located at [github.com/aedart/athenaeum](https://github.com/aedart/athenaeum)

Versioning
----------

[](#versioning)

This package follows [Semantic Versioning 2.0.0](http://semver.org/)

License
-------

[](#license)

[BSD-3-Clause](http://spdx.org/licenses/BSD-3-Clause), Read the LICENSE file included in this package

###  Health Score

59

—

FairBetter than 99% of packages

Maintenance86

Actively maintained with recent releases

Popularity26

Limited adoption so far

Community21

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity90

Battle-tested with a long release history

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 98.2% 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 ~13 days

Total

165

Last Release

74d ago

Major Versions

4.2.1 → 5.0.02020-10-04

5.27.0 → 6.0.02022-04-05

6.8.1 → 7.0.02023-02-16

7.33.0 → 8.0.02024-03-18

8.22.0 → 9.0.02025-03-04

PHP version history (6 changes)v4.0PHP >=7.4.0

6.0.0PHP ^8.0.2

7.0.0PHP ^8.1

7.21.0PHP ^8.1.22

8.0.0PHP ^8.2

9.0.0PHP ^8.3

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1523223?v=4)[Alin Eugen Deac](/maintainers/aedart)[@aedart](https://github.com/aedart)

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Top Contributors

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