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barnabywalters/helpers
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Yet another library of those damned helper functions.

v0.1.9(12y ago)11128PHP

Since Oct 16Pushed 12y ago4 watchersCompare

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php-helpers
===========

[](#php-helpers)

Yet another package full of helper functions.

This is pretty much a personal dumping ground for little functions and classes I make which don’t fit anywhere else. Every now and again I extract a whole bunch of related functions into a package of their own.

A lot of the open source code I’ve written depends on this package, which is not a very good thing as it’s actually quite big, especially if you install all the dev dependencies (which composer does by default). So I’m currently (2013-06) in the process of extracting the bits I’m using into minimal packages as described above.

Contents
--------

[](#contents)

- `BarnabyWalters\Doctrine\Types\Json`: A custom type for Doctrine allowing arrays to be stored as JSON in `longtext` fields.
- `BarnabyWalters\Helpers\Helpers`: A class full of static helper methods for doing various bits of text processing and other stuff.
- `BarnabyWalters\Helpers\Microformats`: Static helper methods for processing canonical microformats-2 array structures
- `BarnabyWalters\Posse\*`: A namespace full of helper classes for syndicating content. Includes:
    - THE TRUNCENATOR
    - Twitter syndication methods
    - intelligent ActivityStreams Object => Twitter POST array
    - HTML => Microblogging syntax converter

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

[](#documentation)

Auto-generated documentation is available online, but split up a bit.

- [Static Helpers and Microformats Helpers](http://waterpigs.co.uk/docs/namespaces/BarnabyWalters.Helpers.html)
- [Doctrine JSON Type](http://waterpigs.co.uk/docs/classes/BarnabyWalters.Doctrine.Types.Json.html)
- [POSSE including THE TRUNCENATOR and Syndicators](http://waterpigs.co.uk/docs/namespaces/BarnabyWalters.Posse.html)

###  Health Score

29

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LowBetter than 60% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity16

Limited adoption so far

Community8

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity59

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 ~35 days

Recently: every ~70 days

Total

10

Last Release

4637d ago

### Community

Maintainers

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Top Contributors

[![barnabywalters](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/968350?v=4)](https://github.com/barnabywalters "barnabywalters (91 commits)")

###  Code Quality

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