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ems/collection
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Collection are Dictionaries, Maps, Lists and Iterators for php

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collection
==========

[](#collection)

List, Dictionaries, Maps, etc for PHP

Collections aims to make working with PHP arrays a little pythonic. Most of the collections are for use in views and use proxies and iterators to make view operations easier without loosing the original objects.

This lib is in alpha quality.

###  Health Score

39

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LowBetter than 86% of packages

Maintenance35

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity23

Limited adoption so far

Community13

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity72

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 ~360 days

Recently: every ~568 days

Total

11

Last Release

605d ago

PHP version history (3 changes)v0.1.0PHP >=5.3.0

v0.1.2PHP >=5.4.0

v0.3.0PHP >=8.2.0

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/99acf76522a71f6ac363efaab2bec34dce2f74d3d82f1cb4680049dc4ef37cb7?d=identicon)[mtils](/maintainers/mtils)

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Top Contributors

[![mtils](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/2744124?v=4)](https://github.com/mtils "mtils (37 commits)")

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Tags

iteratorsdictionaryarraysListspython-php

###  Code Quality

TestsPHPUnit

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