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appzz/finder
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Find files,sort,filter uses iterators

2.0.5(3y ago)041MITPHPPHP >=5.3.3

Since Jul 31Pushed 3y ago1 watchersCompare

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README
======

[](#readme)

### Find files via RecursiveIteratorIterator

[](#find-files-via-recursiveiteratoriterator)

- Search files, filter by types, sort items, ignore (or not) hidden files

### Usage

[](#usage)

```
$finder = Finder::factory('path/to/dir')
			->types', ['mp4', 'mov']
			->exclude ('(foo|bar)')
			->exclude_paths('path')
			->hidden(FALSE)
			->find()
			->sort('size', TRUE); //name, date, type

$files = get_files(['mtime', 'size', 'owner', 'perms']);

var_dump($files);

```

###  Health Score

27

—

LowBetter than 49% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity8

Limited adoption so far

Community7

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity62

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% 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 ~461 days

Total

5

Last Release

1362d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/ed80e5fea7f08c36b76e87f1395c71d245f97362d706a77aa2ade992bd2976b8?d=identicon)[CoolSwitcher](/maintainers/CoolSwitcher)

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Top Contributors

[![coolswitcher](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/646663?v=4)](https://github.com/coolswitcher "coolswitcher (16 commits)")

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Tags

finderfind files

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