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ehough/iconic
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Fork of Symfony's Dependency Injection component compatible with PHP 5.2+.

v2.5.4(11y ago)094111MITPHPPHP >=5.2.0

Since Jul 17Pushed 9y ago1 watchersCompare

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iconic
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[](#iconic)

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**This library is no longer supported or maintained as PHP 5.2 usage levels have finally dropped below 10%**

Fork of [Symfony's Dependency Injection component](https://github.com/symfony/DependencyInjection) compatible with PHP 5.2+.

### Motivation

[](#motivation)

[Symfony's Dependency Injection component](https://github.com/symfony/DependencyInjection) is a powerful DI library, but it's only compatible with PHP 5.3+. While 97% of PHP servers run PHP 5.2 or higher, **32% of all servers are still running PHP 5.2 or lower** ([source](http://w3techs.com/technologies/details/pl-php/5/all)). It would be a shame to exempt this library from nearly a third of the world's servers just because of a few version incompatibilities.

### Differences from [Symfony's Dependency Injection component](https://github.com/symfony/DependencyInjection)

[](#differences-from-symfonys-dependency-injection-component)

The primary difference is naming conventions of the Symfony classes. Instead of the `\Symfony\Component\DependencyInjection` namespace (and sub-namespaces), prefix the Symfony class names with `ehough_iconic` and follow the [PEAR naming convention](http://pear.php.net/manual/en/standards.php)

A few examples of class naming conversions:

```
\Symfony\Component\DependencyInjection\ContainerBuilder           ----->    ehough_iconic_ContainerBuilder
\Symfony\Component\DependencyInjection\Compiler\Compiler          ----->    ehough_iconic_compiler_Compiler
\Symfony\Component\DependencyInjection\ParameterBag\ParameterBag  ----->    ehough_iconic_parameterbag_ParameterBag

```

Other gotchas when using iconic instead of Symfony's Dependency Injection component

- Most of the loaders and dumpers can only be used with PHP 5.3+
- The expression language feature is only available with PHP 5.3+

### Usage

[](#usage)

Here is a simple example that shows how to register services and parameters:

```
$sc = new ehough_iconic_ContainerBuilder();
$sc
    ->register('foo', '%foo.class%')
    ->addArgument(new ehough_iconic_Reference('bar'))
;
$sc->setParameter('foo.class', 'Foo');

$sc->get('foo');
```

Method Calls (Setter Injection):

```
$sc = new ehough_iconic_ContainerBuilder();

$sc
    ->register('bar', '%bar.class%')
    ->addMethodCall('setFoo', array(new ehough_iconic_Reference('foo')))
;
$sc->setParameter('bar.class', 'Bar');

$sc->get('bar');
```

Factory Class:

If your service is retrieved by calling a static method:

```
$sc = new ehough_iconic_ContainerBuilder();

$sc
    ->register('bar', '%bar.class%')
    ->setFactoryClass('%bar.class%')
    ->setFactoryMethod('getInstance')
    ->addArgument('Aarrg!!!')
;
$sc->setParameter('bar.class', 'Bar');

$sc->get('bar');
```

File Include:

For some services, especially those that are difficult or impossible to autoload, you may need the container to include a file before instantiating your class.

```
$sc = new ehough_iconic_ContainerBuilder();

$sc
    ->register('bar', '%bar.class%')
    ->setFile('/path/to/file')
    ->addArgument('Aarrg!!!')
;
$sc->setParameter('bar.class', 'Bar');

$sc->get('bar');
```

### Releases and Versioning

[](#releases-and-versioning)

Releases are synchronized with the upstream Symfony repository. e.g. `ehough/iconic v2.3.2` has merged the code from `symfony/DependencyInjection v2.3.2`.

###  Health Score

33

—

LowBetter than 72% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity15

Limited adoption so far

Community24

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity65

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 63.1% 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 ~43 days

Recently: every ~24 days

Total

11

Last Release

4294d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/53b269d929f6ba572a15e4b069d9b59e0e99af74db1be60cbac7a56adfea9221?d=identicon)[ehough](/maintainers/ehough)

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###  Code Quality

TestsPHPUnit

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