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dmeroff/string
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PHP 5.3 String manipulation library

v1.0(12y ago)239MITPHP

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[](#string-)

String class
------------

[](#string-class)

String is a class that turns string into PHP objects. It implements a fluent interface, improving how we manipulate strings, and extends functionality by providing common functions.

Imagine that you need to replace "hello" to "goodbye" and make first letter uppercase. In classic PHP it would like something like this:

```
$string = 'hello, world';
$string = str_replace('hello', 'goodbye', $string);
$string = ucfirst($string);
echo $string; // Goodbye, world
```

Using the String class it gets simpler:

```
$string = 'hello, world';
$string = new String\String($string);
echo $string->replace('hello', 'goodbye')->sentencecase(); // Goodbye, world
```

OR

```
$string = 'hello, world';
echo String\String::make($string)->replace('hello', 'goodbye')->sentencecase(); // Goodbye, world
```

LetterPairSimilarity class
--------------------------

[](#letterpairsimilarity-class)

This class can be used to compare string using ["Strike a match"](http://www.catalysoft.com/articles/strikeamatch.html) algorithm.

```
$similarity = String\LetterPairSimilarity::compare('Healed', 'Healthy');
echo round($similarity, 2); // 0.55
```

Requirements
------------

[](#requirements)

- PHP 5.3 and higher
- mbstring extension

###  Health Score

28

—

LowBetter than 54% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity10

Limited adoption so far

Community7

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity63

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

Unknown

Total

1

Last Release

4686d ago

### Community

Maintainers

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Top Contributors

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