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chriscollins/general-utils
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General PHP utilities.

3.0.0(4d ago)2721MITPHPPHP >=8.1CI passing

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General Utilities
=================

[](#general-utilities)

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General PHP utilities.

Installation
------------

[](#installation)

Require in your project via composer.json as follows:

```
{
    "require": {
        "chriscollins/general-utils": "~3.0.0"
    }
}
```

Run `composer install`.

###  Health Score

53

—

FairBetter than 97% of packages

Maintenance99

Actively maintained with recent releases

Popularity13

Limited adoption so far

Community9

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity76

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% 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 ~915 days

Recently: every ~1082 days

Total

6

Last Release

4d ago

Major Versions

1.0.1 → 2.0.02022-08-22

2.x-dev → 3.x-dev2026-05-06

PHP version history (3 changes)1.0.0PHP >=5.3.0

2.0.0PHP >=7.4.0

3.x-devPHP >=8.1

### Community

Maintainers

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Top Contributors

[![chriscollins](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/783289?v=4)](https://github.com/chriscollins "chriscollins (11 commits)")

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Tags

jsoncurlutilities

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