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dennobaby/censor
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Simple PHP-lib to censor sensible data

1.0.2(4y ago)051MITPHPPHP ^7.3

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censor
======

[](#censor)

Simple PHP-lib to censor sensible data

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

```
use Denno\Censor\Censor;

$censored = Censor::censor($string, ...$positions)
 // or
$censored = Censor::censorOnStrategy($string, Strategy::class);
```

Strategies
----------

[](#strategies)

Censor comes up with defined strategies for common data-types like IBAN, Phonenumbers,

### IBAN

[](#iban)

This strategy is useful to censor bank-accounts in IBAN-Format.

#### Examples

[](#examples)

- DE89 3704 0044 0532 0130 00 => DE\*\*37040044053201\*\*\*\*
- NL91 ABNA 0417 1643 00 => NL\*\*ABNA041716\*\*\*\*

### Phone-Numbers

[](#phone-numbers)

This strategy is useful to censor phone-numbers including area codes.

#### Examples

[](#examples-1)

- +4915226215421 => +4915226215\*\*\*

For short phone-numbers you should use the phone-short-strategy which censors the last half:

- 300452 => 300\*\*\*

### E-Mail

[](#e-mail)

Simply censor parts from the username and the domain

#### Examples:

[](#examples-2)

-  => den\*\*\*@doubl\*\*\*.it
-  => da\*@ao\*.local

### Person-Name

[](#person-name)

Censor a Person-name

#### Examples:

[](#examples-3)

- Miller & Justice => Mil\*\*\* & Just\*\*\*
- Jonathan Earl Of Northumbria => Jonat\*\*\* Ear\* O\* Northumb\*\*\*
- Jon Doe => Jo\* Do\*

Custom censoring
----------------

[](#custom-censoring)

Define your own censoring schema by using directly the censor-function. The first parameter is your string, the second is a variable number of positions, where up to the first position is censored, up to the second not, and so on.

Custom strategies
-----------------

[](#custom-strategies)

You can write your own Strategy implementing StrategyInterface to define patterns Censor should use.

###  Health Score

23

—

LowBetter than 27% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity8

Limited adoption so far

Community7

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 ~0 days

Total

6

Last Release

1655d ago

Major Versions

0.1.2 → 1.0.02021-11-04

### Community

Maintainers

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---

Top Contributors

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