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bileto/critical-section
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Lightweight class supporting critical section locking

v2.1.0(5y ago)122.6k↓43.2%12MITPHPPHP >=7.1

Since May 10Pushed 4y ago3 watchersCompare

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Description
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[](#description)

Lightweight class supporting critical section locking in PHP.

It requires **PHP >= 7.1** and no other dependency.

Example
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[](#example)

```
$pdo = new PDO('...');
$driver = new Bileto\CriticalSection\Driver\PdoPgsqlDriver($pdo);
$criticalSection = new Bileto\CriticalSection\CriticalSection($driver);

$criticalSection->enter('Section Label');

// Perform set of steps of critical tasks

$criticalSection->leave('Section Label');
```

###  Health Score

34

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LowBetter than 77% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity28

Limited adoption so far

Community18

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity61

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 62.5% 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 ~408 days

Total

4

Last Release

2069d ago

Major Versions

v1.0.1 → v2.0.02020-09-17

PHP version history (2 changes)v1.0.0PHP >=7.0.0

v2.0.0PHP >=7.1

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/4ef9d9b4f18ff559cf0dfecccd8593840b04c26c09a95a396d8cdab865aba127?d=identicon)[bileto](/maintainers/bileto)

![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/865447?v=4)[Martin Štekl](/maintainers/stekycz)[@stekycz](https://github.com/stekycz)

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Top Contributors

[![stekycz](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/865447?v=4)](https://github.com/stekycz "stekycz (20 commits)")[![jspetrak](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/146057?v=4)](https://github.com/jspetrak "jspetrak (11 commits)")[![trejjam](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/3594540?v=4)](https://github.com/trejjam "trejjam (1 commits)")

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Tags

critical-sectionlocksparallelparallellockscritical-section

###  Code Quality

Static AnalysisPHPStan

Type Coverage Yes

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