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blackshawk/ayah
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Package for supporting Are You A Human captcha requests.

58.4kPHP

Since Feb 28Pushed 13y ago1 watchersCompare

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PHP 5.3 AYAH
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[](#php-53-ayah)

For more information see the [Are You A Human](http://www.areyouahuman.com/) web site. The goal of the product is to provide a more interactive (and infinitely less frustrating) form of captcha for websites. Instead of hideously mangled text you play a small interactive game with very basic instructions.

As a note - I am not affiliated with the AYAH company or their product. I simply ran across it one day, decided it was cool, and decided to modify their PHP library to make it namespaced and easily autoloaded by today's modern frameworks. This project (which can also be found on [Packagist](http://packagist.org/packages/Blackshawk/AYAH)) should easily slot into any framework with a PSR-0 compliant autoloader (ZF, ZF2, Symfony, etc.) although I haven't had a lot of time to test integration with any of these.

I also added some basic unit testing for this project. There are still a few spots I am unsatisfied with, but this is a direct port of the Are You A Human company's library that they ship, so this hardly a ground-up invention on my part.

I'll post a code tutorial soon although it isn't difficult to use and I did document most of the methods fairly well.

If there are problems please fork and submit pull requests, or email me at .

###  Health Score

26

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LowBetter than 43% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity23

Limited adoption so far

Community9

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity41

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 85.7% 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

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