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erkens/polyfill-php81
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Symfony polyfill backporting some PHP 8.1+ features to lower PHP versions, compatible for >=PHP 5.3

v1.26.0.1(3y ago)0395MITPHPPHP >=5.3

Since Jan 7Pushed 3y agoCompare

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Symfony Polyfill / Php81
========================

[](#symfony-polyfill--php81)

This component provides features added to PHP 8.1 core:

- [`array_is_list`](https://php.net/array_is_list)
- [`enum_exists`](https://php.net/enum-exists)
- [`MYSQLI_REFRESH_REPLICA`](https://php.net/mysqli.constants#constantmysqli-refresh-replica) constant
- [`ReturnTypeWillChange`](https://wiki.php.net/rfc/internal_method_return_types)

More information can be found in the [main Polyfill README](https://github.com/symfony/polyfill/blob/main/README.md).

License
=======

[](#license)

This library is released under the [MIT license](LICENSE).

###  Health Score

26

—

LowBetter than 43% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity12

Limited adoption so far

Community12

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity53

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 57.1% 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 ~91 days

Recently: every ~103 days

Total

7

Last Release

1409d ago

PHP version history (2 changes)v1.22.0PHP >=7.1

v1.26.0.1PHP >=5.3

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d94f369127817b27f1d3afe0efaa31264725df40bb79fbde9a04765b6eeb8fda?d=identicon)[Erkens](/maintainers/Erkens)

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Top Contributors

[![nicolas-grekas](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/243674?v=4)](https://github.com/nicolas-grekas "nicolas-grekas (8 commits)")[![derrabus](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1506493?v=4)](https://github.com/derrabus "derrabus (1 commits)")[![erkens](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/10248696?v=4)](https://github.com/erkens "erkens (1 commits)")[![boesing](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/2189546?v=4)](https://github.com/boesing "boesing (1 commits)")[![IonBazan](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1985514?v=4)](https://github.com/IonBazan "IonBazan (1 commits)")[![llaville](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/364342?v=4)](https://github.com/llaville "llaville (1 commits)")[![Firtzberg](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/8490119?v=4)](https://github.com/Firtzberg "Firtzberg (1 commits)")

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