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citripio/date
=============

Date helpers for citripio websites

1.0.1(7y ago)0161MITPHP

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Date helpers for websites
=========================

[](#date-helpers-for-websites)

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

[](#installation)

Add this to your `composer.json`

```
{
    "require": {
        "citripio/date": "^1.0"
    }
}

```

Then:

```
require_once "./vendor/autoload.php";

$date_utils = new Citripio\Date(
    array(
        "lang" => "es",
    )
);

```

Methods
-------

[](#methods)

### is\_today()

[](#is_today)

Receives a PHP Date `date("Y-m-d H:i:s")`. Returns `true` if it's today.

### is\_yesterday()

[](#is_yesterday)

Receives a PHP Date `date("Y-m-d H:i:s")`. Returns `true` if it's yesterday.

### month()

[](#month)

Receives an integer representing a month of the year, returns its name.

### day()

[](#day)

Receives an integer representing a day of the week, returns its name.

### get\_date\_components()

[](#get_date_components)

Useful for composing headings and other strings with dates in them.

Receives a PHP Date `date("Y-m-d H:i:s")`. Returns an array containing:

- **date\_dow**: Day name. Same as `day()`
- **date\_day**: Day number, like the 20 in "April 20th"
- **date\_moy**: Month name. Dame as `month()`
- **date\_distance**: (today|yesterday|past)
- **ordinal**: Date number with an ordinal attached to it, for english dates. Eg: "20th", "3rd", "1st"

###  Health Score

28

—

LowBetter than 54% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity10

Limited adoption so far

Community8

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity64

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 ~0 days

Total

2

Last Release

2885d ago

### Community

Maintainers

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Top Contributors

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