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danieljharvey/plop-catcher
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Drop-in error catcher and general logger

1.7.1(8y ago)0304MITPHP

Since Jun 11Pushed 8y agoCompare

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plop-catcher
============

[](#plop-catcher)

Make errors and logging and etc much nicer.

Better error catching and logging. Usage:

Plop($outputMode, $callbackFunction);

$outputMode can be 'HTML', 'JSON' or 'ARRAY' $callbackFunction will receive html, json or a PHP array, and is called if a fatal error uncaught exception stops execution allowing graceful error screens or debug output.

The HTML output will be initially invisible - press Shift-Enter to show or hide output.

```
$plop = new \DanielJHarvey\PlopCatcher\Plop('HTML',function($html) {
    outputHTML($html);
});
$plop->enable();

// code that will be executed

// blah blah blah blah blah blah

// end of code

// output debugging info in chosen format
outputHTML($plop->output());

function outputHTML(html) {
    echo $html;
}

```

Other things

```
$plop->logComment($message);

```

###  Health Score

30

—

LowBetter than 62% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity12

Limited adoption so far

Community6

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity69

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 ~7 days

Total

9

Last Release

3248d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/4729125?v=4)[Daniel Harvey](/maintainers/danieljharvey)[@danieljharvey](https://github.com/danieljharvey)

---

Top Contributors

[![danieljharvey](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/4729125?v=4)](https://github.com/danieljharvey "danieljharvey (23 commits)")

###  Code Quality

TestsPHPUnit

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