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decodelabs/systemic
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Easy access to system and environment info

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Systemic
========

[](#systemic)

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### System processes and information at your fingertips

[](#system-processes-and-information-at-your-fingertips)

Systemic offers an easy to use frontend to launching and controlling processes and accessing system information.

---

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

[](#installation)

This package requires PHP 8.4 or higher.

Install via composer:

```
composer require decodelabs/systemic
```

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

### Process launching

[](#process-launching)

Launch new processes:

```
use DecodeLabs\Monarch;
use DecodeLabs\Systemic;

$systemic = Monarch::getService(Systemic::class);

$dir = 'path/to/working-directory';

// Launch and capture output of a process
echo $systemic->capture(['ls', '-al'], $dir)->getOutput();

// Launch and capture output of a process with raw string command (not escaped)
echo $systemic->capture('ls -al', $dir)->getOutput();

// Launch and capture output of a script
echo $systemic->capture(['myPhpScript.php'], $dir)->getOutput();

// Launch a background task
$process = $systemic->launch(['make', 'install']);

// Launch a background script
$process = $systemic->launchScript(['myPhpScript.php'], $dir);

// Run a piped pseudo terminal process
$success = $systemic->run(['interactive-app', '--arg1'], $dir);

// Run a piped pseudo terminal script
$success = $systemic->runScript(['myPhpScript.php', '--arg1'], $dir);

// Custom escaped command
$success = $systemic->command(['escaped', 'arguments'])
    ->setWorkingDirectory($dir)
    ->addSignal('SIGSTOP') // Pass SIGSTOP through when caught
    ->setUser('someuser') // Attempt to use sudo to run as user
    ->run();

// Custom raw command with env arguments
$result = $systemic->command('echo ${:VARIABLE} | unescaped-command', [
        'VARIABLE' => 'Hello world'
    ])
    ->setWorkingDirectory($dir)
    ->capture();
```

### OS info

[](#os-info)

Get information about the current OS:

```
// OS info
echo $systemic->os->name; // Linux | Windows | Darwin
echo $systemic->os->platformType; // Unix | Windows
echo $systemic->os->distribution; // eg Ubuntu or High Sierra, etc
echo $systemic->os->version; // System version info
echo $systemic->os->release; // System version number
echo $systemic->os->hostName; // System hostname

// Find binaries on the system
echo $systemic->os->which('php'); // eg /usr/local/bin/php
```

Windows
-------

[](#windows)

Please note, OS and Process support on Windows is currently extremely sketchy - this will be fleshed out soon!

Licensing
---------

[](#licensing)

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

###  Health Score

54

—

FairBetter than 97% of packages

Maintenance78

Regular maintenance activity

Popularity29

Limited adoption so far

Community15

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity80

Battle-tested with a long release history

 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 ~37 days

Recently: every ~10 days

Total

60

Last Release

262d ago

PHP version history (5 changes)v0.5.0PHP ^7.2

v0.7.0PHP ^7.2|^8.0

v0.9.0PHP ^8.0

v0.11.10PHP ^8.1

v0.11.15PHP ^8.4

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/8a241d64d12b3b5ee94197862ec1ec30b82ed2efa34a0cd7f4c3565a021daddd?d=identicon)[betterthanclay](/maintainers/betterthanclay)

---

Top Contributors

[![betterthanclay](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1273586?v=4)](https://github.com/betterthanclay "betterthanclay (355 commits)")

---

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