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brianium/habitat
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A dependable php environment

v1.0.0(12y ago)4412.0M—2.7%[1 issues](https://github.com/brianium/habitat/issues)7MITPHP

Since Jun 8Pushed 5y ago2 watchersCompare

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[](#habitat-)

> Because we dont always know if $\_ENV is available

Habitat is a light weight wrapper over PHP's environment variable functionality. Habitat allows the retrieval of all environment variables when the ini setting `variables_order` does not contain the `E` flag

Examples
--------

[](#examples)

Habitat delegates most functionality to the native php functions `getenv` and `putenv`. If $\_ENV is not available due to the `variables_order` ini setting, then Habitat's `getAll`method will still allow access to all variables that are in `$_ENV`.

```
use Habitat\Habit;

//equivalent of getenv('FOO')
$foo = Habitat::getenv('FOO');

//equivalent of putenv('FOO=BAR')
$wasSet = Habitat::putenv('FOO=BAR');

/**
 * Returns $_ENV if set, otherwise set $_ENV via phpinfo() and
 * return it
 */
$all = Habitat::getAll();
```

Parsers
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[](#parsers)

Habitat can support the cli and html varieties of `phpinfo`. It will detect the current sapi and use the appropriate method to populate $\_ENV

###  Health Score

42

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FairBetter than 90% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity53

Moderate usage in the ecosystem

Community17

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity63

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 93.3% 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

Unknown

Total

1

Last Release

4728d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/f71e23eec19a24f64f37c622e76e725c9a580f83ff40c411da9bad97e0a49089?d=identicon)[brianium](/maintainers/brianium)

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Top Contributors

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###  Code Quality

TestsPHPUnit

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