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dbursem/phpaprs
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APRS Library for PHP

V1.0(10y ago)321721GPLv3PHPPHP >=5.3.0

Since Nov 18Pushed 6y ago1 watchersCompare

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PHPAPRS
=======

[](#phpaprs)

This is basically a fork of the phpAPRS library by Matthew Asham. All I did was some refactoring to get to know the code. The original readme, credits and license can be found in /doc.

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

[](#installation)

run `composer require dbursem/phpaprs`. Check  for more info on composer.

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

There is an example APRS bot in the example directory. Your best chance to get things working is using this example and changing it as you like.

- Copy the example directory to your install directory
- Copy the aprsbot.cfg.php file to local.aprsbot.cfg.php and edit it with your personal settings.
- Set the filter to a valid APRS filter.
- Call the example aprsbot from the commandline with `php aprsbot.php`.

### Minimal steps:

[](#minimal-steps)

- Copy aprsbot.cfg.php to local.aprsbot.cfg.php and edit it with your required settings
- Make an aprs object

```
$aprs = new dbursem\phpaprs\APRS();
```

- Connect to the APRS host

```
if ($aprs->connect(HOST, PORT, MYCALL, PASSCODE, $filter) == FALSE)
{
    die( "Connect failed\n");
}
```

- Create a loop to handle the input/output

```
while(1){
	$aprs->ioloop(5);
	// do stuff
	sleep(1);
}
```

###  Health Score

29

—

LowBetter than 59% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity16

Limited adoption so far

Community11

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity60

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 ~82 days

Total

2

Last Release

3751d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/ef98d57ad8197541b3907a7ebcdb8b0dc8bdf8ed44be448d2feb7cc4464c5bd5?d=identicon)[dbursem](/maintainers/dbursem)

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Top Contributors

[![dbursem](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/5601853?v=4)](https://github.com/dbursem "dbursem (14 commits)")

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APRS

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