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duncan3dc/helpers
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A collection of useful helper classes

1.7.2(9y ago)13188.1k2Apache-2.0PHPPHP ^5.6|^7.0CI failing

Since May 31Pushed 9y ago2 watchersCompare

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php-helpers
===========

[](#php-helpers)

A collection of helper functions written in PHP for PHP.

Full documentation is currently being worked on.
Class documentation available at

[![Build Status](https://camo.githubusercontent.com/d6ba8acd198838c76aac06a917f96e4caef7273af0b733cd8a6291aecd121389/68747470733a2f2f7472617669732d63692e6f72672f64756e63616e3364632f7068702d68656c706572732e7376673f6272616e63683d6d6173746572)](https://travis-ci.org/duncan3dc/php-helpers)[![Latest Stable Version](https://camo.githubusercontent.com/ae3ae8d1251878656de84988c81a019431cf1cbc2a0481d9c2b235324713aca6/68747470733a2f2f706f7365722e707567782e6f72672f64756e63616e3364632f68656c706572732f76657273696f6e2e737667)](https://packagist.org/packages/duncan3dc/helpers)

###  Health Score

39

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LowBetter than 84% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity37

Limited adoption so far

Community11

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity71

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 98.3% 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 ~18 days

Recently: every ~137 days

Total

50

Last Release

3501d ago

PHP version history (3 changes)1.0.0PHP >=5.4.0

1.5.4PHP >=5.5.0

1.7.1PHP ^5.6|^7.0

### Community

Maintainers

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Top Contributors

[![duncan3dc](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/546811?v=4)](https://github.com/duncan3dc "duncan3dc (113 commits)")[![ThomasWunderlich](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/796958?v=4)](https://github.com/ThomasWunderlich "ThomasWunderlich (2 commits)")

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Tags

filesystemdebugimagecsvcachecachingfilesenvironmentsession

###  Code Quality

TestsPHPUnit

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