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decodelabs/pandora
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Potent PSR-11 depdency injection container

v0.4.1(8mo ago)520.9k13MITPHPPHP ^8.4CI passing

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Pandora
=======

[](#pandora)

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### PSR-11 dependency injection container

[](#psr-11-dependency-injection-container)

Pandora offers a simple, powerful and flexible dependency injection and instantiation system to used as the core of your application.

---

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

[](#installation)

This package requires PHP 8.4 or higher.

Install via Composer:

```
composer require decodelabs/pandora
```

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

Instantiate a new `Container` to keep your important objects organised:

```
use DecodeLabs\Pandora\Container;

$container = new Container();
```

Bind instances or classes to interfaces and retrieve them when you need them:

```
use My\Library\CoolInterface;
use My\Library\CoolImplementation; // Implements CoolInterface

// Instance
$container->bind(CoolInterface::class, new CoolImplementation());
$imp = $container->get(CoolInterface::class);

// Will only bind if CoolInterface has not been bound before
$container->tryBind(CoolInterface::class, new OtherImplementation()); // Will not bind
$imp = $container->get(CoolInterface::class);

// Bind a factory
$container->bind(CoolInterface::class, fn() => new CoolImplementation());
```

### Retrieval

[](#retrieval)

Parameters can be passed to constructors of implementation classes:

```
$imp = $container->getWith(CoolInterface::class, ['list', 'of', 'params']);

// Or inject parameters for later:
$container->inject(CoolInterface::class, 'paramName', 'paramValue');
$imp = $container->get(CoolInterface::class);
```

Access the binding controllers:

```
$binding = $container->getBinding(CoolInterface::class);
```

Licensing
---------

[](#licensing)

Pandora is licensed under the MIT License. See [LICENSE](./LICENSE) for the full license text.

###  Health Score

49

—

FairBetter than 95% of packages

Maintenance67

Regular maintenance activity

Popularity32

Limited adoption so far

Community14

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity70

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 ~63 days

Recently: every ~38 days

Total

26

Last Release

243d ago

PHP version history (4 changes)v0.1.0PHP ^7.2|^8.0

v0.2.0PHP ^8.0

v0.2.14PHP ^8.1

v0.3.0PHP ^8.4

### Community

Maintainers

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---

Top Contributors

[![betterthanclay](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1273586?v=4)](https://github.com/betterthanclay "betterthanclay (140 commits)")

---

Tags

containerdependency-injectionphppsr-11containerPSR-11dependencyinjection

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