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berlioz/utils
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Additional functions for PHP

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**⚠️ Package abandoned, look at replacement package: [BerliozFramework/Helpers](https://github.com/BerliozFramework/Helpers) ⚠️**

Berlioz Utils
=============

[](#berlioz-utils)

Additional functions for PHP to help you in development.

Dates
-----

[](#dates)

- `b_time_to_sec(...)`: return the number of seconds since midnight with hour param in format (H:m:i)
- `b_sec_to_time(...)`: format time with timestamp in entry
- `b_date_format(...)`: format date/time object or timestamp to the given pattern
- `b_age(...)`: calculation of age with birthday
- `b_db_date(...)`: convert date in entry to the database format (computer format)

Forms
-----

[](#forms)

- `b_form_protect(...)`: protect data passed into form values
- `b_form_control(...)`: control form input data (from $\_GET or $\_POST)
- `b_form_control_get(...)`: control form input data from $\_GET
- `b_form_control_post(...)`: control form input data from $\_POST

Security
--------

[](#security)

- `b_is_secured_page(...)`: is secured page ?
- `b_get_secured_page(...)`: get secured page of given url

Strings
-------

[](#strings)

- `b_mb_detect_encoding(...)`: mb\_detect\_encoding() alternative (using iconv)
- `b_detect_utf_encoding(...)`: detect UTF encoding of string or files
- `b_remove_bom`(...): remove the BOM of UTF string or files
- `b_truncate(...)`: truncate string
- `b_remove_entities(...)`: remove entities from string
- `b_strtouri(...)`: treat string for url
- `b_random_string(...)`: generate an hazard string
- `b_email_account(...)`: extract account part of email
- `b_email_domain(...)`: extract domain of email
- `b_nl2p(...)`: surrounds paragraphs with "P" HTML tag and inserts HTML line breaks before all newlines

Objects
-------

[](#objects)

- `b_property_get(...)`: get property value to an object when we don't know getter format
- `b_property_set(...)`: set property value to an object when we don't know setter format

Arrays
------

[](#arrays)

- `b_array_traverse(...)`: traverse array with keys
- `b_array_merge_recursive(...)`: merge two or more arrays recursively

Images
------

[](#images)

- `b_gradient_color(...)`: calculate a gradient destination color
- `b_img_size(...)`: calculate sizes with new given width and height
- `b_img_resize(...)`: resize image
- `b_img_support(...)`: resize support of image

###  Health Score

21

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LowBetter than 18% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity16

Limited adoption so far

Community7

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity34

Early-stage or recently created project

 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.

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/18268216?v=4)[Ronan Giron](/maintainers/ElGigi)[@ElGigi](https://github.com/ElGigi)

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Top Contributors

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