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dgifford/filter
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Class for filtering, validating and sanitizing data.

v3.6(9y ago)086GPL-3.0PHP >=5.4

Since Sep 20Compare

[ Source](https://bitbucket.org/dgifford/filter.git)[ Packagist](https://packagist.org/packages/dgifford/filter)[ RSS](/packages/dgifford-filter/feed)WikiDiscussions Synced 2mo ago

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###  Health Score

28

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LowBetter than 54% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity9

Limited adoption so far

Community2

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity65

Established project with proven stability

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 ~18 days

Recently: every ~35 days

Total

10

Last Release

3356d ago

Major Versions

v2.0 → v3.02016-10-05

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/413704?v=4)[David Delivante Gifford](/maintainers/dgifford)[@dgifford](https://github.com/dgifford)

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Tags

filtersanitize

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