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ericpoe/haystack
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Forget Haystack vs Needle order, the object IS the Haystack. Haystack is a library that allows for pipelining and immutable structures.

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Haystack
========

[](#haystack)

Forget Haystack vs Needle order, the object *IS* the Haystack. Haystack is a library that allows for pipelining, immutable structures, and UTF-8 strings.

Install
-------

[](#install)

Haystack is installable as a [Composer](http://getcomposer.org) package:

```
$ composer require ericpoe/haystack
```

Running tests
-------------

[](#running-tests)

```
$ git clone ...
$ composer install
$ vendor/bin/phpunit
```

Background
----------

[](#background)

Trying to remember commonly-used PHP functions for strings and arrays in PHP is hard. Are array functions haystack-needle and string functions needle-haystack, or vice versa? Quick, without looking at documentation or using a decent IDE, which is correct: `in_array($needle, $haystack)` or `in_array($haystack, needle)`?

Also, even though many of the same kinds of functions are run against arrays and strings, the function names are wildly different. `strstr` and `in_array` do similar things, yet have different names and are called in different manners.

Goal
----

[](#goal)

This project will attempt to match as many string and array verbs as possible. For example, `$foo->contains("elvis")`should determine if the string "elvis" is contained in the $foo object, it shouldn't matter if `$foo` is a string or an array. Ditto `$foo->map($callable)` and `$foo->filter($callable)`.

How do I?
---------

[](#how-do-i)

Check out the [manual](docs/manual.md) for all the things you can do with the Haystack library.

###  Health Score

37

—

LowBetter than 82% of packages

Maintenance19

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity36

Limited adoption so far

Community11

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity66

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 96.8% 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 ~116 days

Recently: every ~195 days

Total

12

Last Release

2656d ago

Major Versions

v0.3.0 → v1.0.02016-02-16

v1.0.2 → v2.0.02016-12-09

PHP version history (4 changes)v0.1.0PHP >=5.4.0

v0.3.0PHP >=5.6.0

v2.0.0PHP >=5.5.9

v2.1.0PHP ^5.6 || ^7.0

### Community

Maintainers

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###  Code Quality

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