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davewid/asylum
==============

A client/server to perpare data when developing REST APIs

0.2.0(13y ago)321MITPHPPHP >=5.3

Since Aug 28Pushed 13y ago2 watchersCompare

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Asylum
======

[](#asylum)

Asylum is a PHP library to help secure your REST transactions. It is based on Amazon's API security. Requires PHP 5.3+.

Installing
----------

[](#installing)

You can use [Composer](http://getcomposer.org/) to install the Asylum library. Asylum is hosted on [Packagist](http://packagist.org/packages/davewid/asylum)so all you will need to add to the require section of composer.json file is below.

```
"require":{
	....
	"davewid/asylum": "*"
	....
}
```

PHP-FIG
-------

[](#php-fig)

Asylum is in compliance with [PSR-0](https://github.com/php-fig/fig-standards/blob/master/accepted/PSR-0.md)and [PSR-1](https://github.com/php-fig/fig-standards/blob/master/accepted/PSR-1-basic-coding-standard.md)(except PSR-1 4.3 as my method names are lowercase and underscored).

License
-------

[](#license)

This code is licensed under the [MIT](http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php) license.

---

Developed by [Dave Widmer](http://www.davewidmer.net).

###  Health Score

24

—

LowBetter than 32% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity10

Limited adoption so far

Community8

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity49

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 ~1 days

Total

2

Last Release

5006d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/46fa0decb95ad8d80b65e1fbed54f3fa9ee6350f1c8a0f83335221a201effb59?d=identicon)[davewid](/maintainers/davewid)

---

Top Contributors

[![daveWid](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/116173?v=4)](https://github.com/daveWid "daveWid (4 commits)")

---

Tags

apirestsecure

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