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christianberkman/sortable-book
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Make the title and author sortable for use in a library inventory by moving the article and initials to the end of the string

1.0.1(1y ago)010MITPHP

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Sortable Book
=============

[](#sortable-book)

Make the title and author sortable for use in a library inventory by moving the article and initials to the end of the string.

This package contains does not contain a class but two helper functions `sortableAuthor()` and `sortableTitle()`.sw

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

[](#installation)

### Via Composer

[](#via-composer)

```
composer require chhristianberkman/sortable-book
```

The file `sortable-book.php` will be autoloaded.

### Manually

[](#manually)

```
require('src/sortable-book.php');
```

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

```
$author = sortableAuthor('C.S. Lewis');
// Lewis, C.S.

$title = sortableTitle('The Last Battle');
// Last Battle, The
```

Function reference
------------------

[](#function-reference)

### sortableAuthor(*?string $value*): ?string

[](#sortableauthorstring-value-string)

Make a book author sortable by moving initials to the end of the string, preceded by a comma and a space

- `string $value` string to format

### sortableTitle(*?string $value, bool $makeSingleSpaces = true, ?string $articles = 'a|an|the'* ): ?string

[](#sortabletitlestring-value-bool-makesinglespaces--true-string-articles--aanthe--string)

Make a book title sortable by moving tha article to the end of the string, preceded by a comma and a space.

- `string $value` string to format
- `bool $makeSingleSpaces` convert all whitepaces to a single whitespace
- `string $articles` list of articles seperated by `|`, defaults to 'a|an|the'

*Returns* `string` or `null`

###  Health Score

25

—

LowBetter than 37% of packages

Maintenance42

Moderate activity, may be stable

Popularity5

Limited adoption so far

Community7

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity39

Early-stage or recently created project

 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 ~4 days

Total

2

Last Release

493d ago

### Community

Maintainers

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Top Contributors

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Static AnalysisPHPStan

Code StylePHP CS Fixer

Type Coverage Yes

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