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chrisullyott/church-name-comparator
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Compare two church names to see if they refer to the same congregation.

v0.0.3(5y ago)04MITPHPPHP ^7.0

Since Oct 8Pushed 5y ago1 watchersCompare

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church-name-comparator
======================

[](#church-name-comparator)

Compare two church names to see if they refer to the same congregation.

### Instantiate

[](#instantiate)

```
$comparator = new ChrisUllyott\ChurchNameComparator();
```

### Compare

[](#compare)

```
$string1 = "First Baptist Church of South Lake";
$string2 = "fbc south lake";

$comparator->setStrings($string1, $string2);
$result = $comparator->isMatch();
// bool(true)
```

```
$string1 = "St. Bartholomew's Church";
$string2 = "St Bart's";

$comparator->setStrings($string1, $string2);
$result = $comparator->isMatch();
// bool(true)
```

```
$string1 = "Grace Episcopal Church";
$string2 = "Grace SBC";

$comparator->setStrings($string1, $string2);
$result = $comparator->isMatch();
// bool(false)
```

###  Health Score

19

—

LowBetter than 10% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity3

Limited adoption so far

Community7

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity41

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

3

Last Release

2042d ago

### Community

Maintainers

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Top Contributors

[![chrisullyott](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1007459?v=4)](https://github.com/chrisullyott "chrisullyott (10 commits)")

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Tags

phpchurches

###  Code Quality

TestsPHPUnit

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