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caseyamcl/php-marc21
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MARC Record handling tool for PHP

v2.0(4mo ago)4523.1k↓21.5%1MITPHPPHP ^8.0CI passing

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phpMARC21
=========

[](#phpmarc21)

This is [php-marc.php](https://sourceforge.net/projects/phpmarc/) packaged for use with Composer.

Description
-----------

[](#description)

MARC Record parser. Syntactically and logically identical to the Perl library MARC::Record. MARC parsing rules have been checked up from `MARC::Record`.

Need PHP v7.x, or v5.x compatibility?
-------------------------------------

[](#need-php-v7x-or-v5x-compatibility)

- If you need to use this library with older versions of PHP, you can use the *1.x* branch of this library (no longer maintained): `composer require caseyamcl/php-marc21: ^1.1`

Authors
-------

[](#authors)

- Christoffer Landtman  – Original Author
- Grant Gingell  – Repackaged and Updated
- Casey McLaughlin  – Updated and hosted on Packagist

###  Health Score

53

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FairBetter than 96% of packages

Maintenance74

Regular maintenance activity

Popularity40

Moderate usage in the ecosystem

Community10

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity71

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 78.9% 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 ~1761 days

Total

3

Last Release

148d ago

Major Versions

v1.1 → v2.02026-02-05

PHP version history (3 changes)v1.0PHP >=5.3.0

v1.1PHP >=5.3.0|^7.0

v2.0PHP ^8.0

### Community

Maintainers

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Top Contributors

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Tags

libraryconversionformatmarc

###  Code Quality

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