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caseyamcl/php-marc21
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MARC Record handling tool for PHP

v2.0(3mo ago)4502.8k—8.3%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- If you need to use this library with older versions of PHP, you can use the *1.x* branch of this library (no longer maintained): `composer require caseyamcl/php-marc21: ^1.1`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

55

—

FairBetter than 98% of packages

Maintenance81

Actively maintained with recent releases

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

102d 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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