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chrishepner/school-name-generator
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Generates plausible-sounding school and university names.

v1.0(10y ago)015MITPHPPHP ^5.4.0|^7.0

Since Apr 16Pushed 10y ago1 watchersCompare

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School Name Generator
=====================

[](#school-name-generator)

Generate plausible-sounding English-language school and university names.

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

[](#installation)

Add the SchoolNameGenerator library to your `composer.json` file:

```
{
  "require": {
    "chrishepner/school-name-generator": "dev-master"
  }
}

```

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

Use the `SchoolNameGenerator\FakerProvider` class in combination with [Faker](https://github.com/fzaninotto/Faker)to produce school or university names:

```
$faker = Faker\Factory::create();
$faker->addProvider(new SchoolNameGenerator\FakerProvider($faker));
for ($i = 0; $i < 10; $i++) {
    echo $faker->schoolName . '\n';
}
```

Some sample output:

```
universityName
==========
University of Alabama
Cole University
Rossieshire Institute of Technology
College of Louisiana
University of Hawaii
O'Kon College
Little Institute of Technology
Utah University
Kshlerin College
Connelly University

schoolName
==========
Kassulke High
Koepp Secondary School
South Cooper School for Boys
Russelborough School for Girls
North Lianaton School for Boys
Reganville School for Girls
Port Karen Elementary
Emmerich High School
South Burdette Elementary
West Lukaston School of Fine Arts

```

###  Health Score

25

—

LowBetter than 37% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity6

Limited adoption so far

Community7

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity58

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

Unknown

Total

1

Last Release

3675d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/23dbe662d89f093e07de1076b8f9ed0905ff5594e83439a5af7d0ffb3ec8bd60?d=identicon)[chrishepner](/maintainers/chrishepner)

---

Top Contributors

[![chrishepner](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/396592?v=4)](https://github.com/chrishepner "chrishepner (2 commits)")

---

Tags

fakerfixturesdatauniversitySchoolcollege

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