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archangeldesign/php-gson
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PHP GSON equivalent - simple entity mapper. JSON to object and object to JSON

0.2(6y ago)1972BSD-3-ClausePHPPHP >=7.1

Since May 10Pushed 6y ago1 watchersCompare

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php-gson
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Zero dependency simple PHP entity mapper. JSON String to Objcet and Object to JSON String.

**Installation**

```
composer require archangeldesign/php-gson

```

or download and include autoload.php

```
include 'php-gson/src/PHPGson/autoload.php';

```

**Usage**

Without instance. Object will be created using given class name.

```
$complexObject = null;
$success = \PHPGson\Gson::fromJson(
    $complexObject,
    '{"age":35, "hydratorTestObject":{"username":"raff"}}',
    \PHPGson\Extractor::EXTRACTION_MODE_METHOD,
    ComplexHydrationObject::class
);

```

With manual instantiation. Sub-objects will be created automatically in both cases.

```
$complexObject = new ComplexHydrationObject();
$success = \PHPGson\Gson::fromJson(
    $complexObject,
    '{"age":35, "hydratorTestObject":{"username":"raff"}}'
);

```

```
$object = new MainObject();
$jsonString = Gson::toJson($object);

```

###  Health Score

25

—

LowBetter than 37% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity13

Limited adoption so far

Community9

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity49

Maturing project, gaining track record

 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 ~440 days

Total

2

Last Release

2484d ago

PHP version history (2 changes)0.1.0-rc1PHP >=5.6

0.2PHP >=7.1

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/b427fc8e86c9d98ddee6a8e4f3c7dfbd3c790e73243aa46e7e3b67481a608377?d=identicon)[ArchangelDesign](/maintainers/ArchangelDesign)

---

Top Contributors

[![ArchangelDesign](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/8267447?v=4)](https://github.com/ArchangelDesign "ArchangelDesign (36 commits)")

---

Tags

entitymappergson

###  Code Quality

TestsPHPUnit

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