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devgiants/phar-application
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Boilerplate for fully maintenable PHP CLI applications packaged in PHAR

1.0.2(8y ago)113MITPHP

Since Mar 16Pushed 8y ago1 watchersCompare

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PHAR Application Boilerplate
============================

[](#phar-application-boilerplate)

\## Description

Embed everything needed to create a fully maintenable PHAR application

\## Installation

```
composer create-project devgiants/phar-application

```

Usage (TODO)
------------

[](#usage-todo)

- Set .env and app/bin/.env
- Change src/App to your namespace
    - app/src/composer.json
    - All namespaces calls
- Change box.json for app name
- Use Model/ApplicationCommand for common model with DI and logging

PHAR Packager
=============

[](#phar-packager)

This bash script goal is to ease tedious PHAR packaging process for a open-source app published on Github. This script is very specific to following case :

- Open-source project hosted on Github
- Use [Box](https://github.com/box-project/box2) for create package
- Use [Kherge version (abandoned)](https://github.com/kherge-abandoned/Version) to handle version number. TODO is to switch to maintained project ASAP
- Use a manifest system to publish phar archive to gh-pages. You can have live example on applications I created such as [livebox](https://github.com/devgiants/livebox/blob/gh-pages/manifest.json) or [websites-backup](https://github.com/devgiants/websites-backup/blob/gh-pages/manifest.json)

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

Just make sur your local `master` branch is up-to-date, with README updated with good version number (the one you publish). Then:

`./make-phar -n appname -v 1.2.3`

This will do, in order :

1. Create local tag with version passed as argument
2. Push `master` branch to remote repo
3. Push tags to remote repo
4. Build PHAR using `box`
5. Move generated PHAR to `/tmp`
6. Checkout to `gh-pages`
7. Move generated archive from `/tmp` to `downloads/{appname}-{version}.phar`
8. Create matching manifest file
9. Push everything to `gh-page` remote branch.
10. Switch back to `master`

###  Health Score

28

—

LowBetter than 52% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity7

Limited adoption so far

Community7

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity65

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 ~6 days

Total

3

Last Release

3015d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/4244050?v=4)[nbonniot](/maintainers/nbonniot)[@nbonniot](https://github.com/nbonniot)

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Top Contributors

[![devgiants](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/8057208?v=4)](https://github.com/devgiants "devgiants (6 commits)")

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