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alexgarrett/violin
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Violin is an easy to use, highly customisable PHP validator.

2.2.2(11y ago)21365.6k3MITPHP >=5.4

Since Jan 12Compare

[ Source](https://github.com/alexgarrett/violin)[ Packagist](https://packagist.org/packages/alexgarrett/violin)[ Docs](https://github.com/alexgarrett/violin)[ RSS](/packages/alexgarrett-violin/feed)WikiDiscussions Synced 1mo ago

READMEChangelogDependencies (2)Versions (10)Used By (3)

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###  Health Score

36

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LowBetter than 81% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity36

Limited adoption so far

Community7

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity64

Established project with proven stability

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 ~11 days

Recently: every ~4 days

Total

9

Last Release

4045d ago

Major Versions

1.1.1 → 2.0.02015-03-26

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d8a04d132384cb23e933f0ea97378d2cd6b1fb4ac00cfa308b703039654c4342?d=identicon)[alexgarrett](/maintainers/alexgarrett)

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Tags

validation

###  Code Quality

TestsPHPUnit

Code StylePHP\_CodeSniffer

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