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chrisharrison/merged-container
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A PSR-11 compliant container that merges a set of PSR-11 containers. You might call it a container container.

v1.1(8y ago)110MITPHPPHP ^7.1

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merged-container
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[](#merged-container)

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A [PSR-11](http://www.php-fig.org/psr/psr-11/) compliant container that merges a set of PSR-11 containers. You might call it a container container.

Requirements
------------

[](#requirements)

Requires PHP 7.1

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

[](#installation)

Through Composer, obviously:

```
composer require chrisharrison/merged-container

```

Why?
----

[](#why)

The [PSR-11](http://www.php-fig.org/psr/psr-11/) container interface have the following properties:

- It's immutable. That means it can't be changed after it's been instantiated.
- It doesn't provide an iteration mechanism.

These two properties mean it's difficult to create a container which is a merge of two or more PSR-11 containers.

This library provides a container which implements the PSR-11 interface. It's constructed by an array of other PSR-11 containers. These containers can use any concrete implementation ([PHP-DI](https://github.com/PHP-DI/PHP-DI), [Pimple](https://github.com/silexphp/Pimple)) as long as they implement the PSR-11 interface.

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

Create a merged container:

```
$merged = new MergedContainer([$container1, $container2]);
```

Use it like any other PSR-11 container.

###  Health Score

26

—

LowBetter than 43% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity7

Limited adoption so far

Community7

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity59

Maturing project, gaining track record

 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 ~0 days

Total

2

Last Release

3086d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/296186?v=4)[Chris Harrison](/maintainers/chrisharrison)[@chrisharrison](https://github.com/chrisharrison)

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Top Contributors

[![chrisharrison](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/296186?v=4)](https://github.com/chrisharrison "chrisharrison (7 commits)")

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Tags

containersiocphp7psr-11

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