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fab2s/opinhelpers
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A collection of Simple, opinionated yet hopefully useful PHP Helper Libs

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OpinHelpers
===========

[](#opinhelpers)

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`OpinHelpers` is a bellow "Swiss Army Knife" level set of opinionated Helper libs (hence the [opin\[h\]el](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinel_knife)^^) covering some of the most annoying aspects of php programing, such as UTF8 string manipulation, arbitrary precision Mathematics or properly locking a file.

`OpinHelpers` libs are opinionated in several ways and do not aim at being universal, but they should hopefully be pretty useful in many IRL cases.

Installation
------------

[](#installation)

`OpinHelpers` can be installed using composer:

```
composer require "fab2s/opinhelpers"

```

If you want to specifically install the php >=7.2.0 version, use:

```
composer require "fab2s/opinhelpers" ^1

```

If you want to specifically install the php 5.6/7.1 version, use:

```
composer require "fab2s/opinhelpers" ^0

```

There are mostly ([see Compatibility](#compatibility)) no changes other than further typing from 0.x to 1.x

Documentation
-------------

[](#documentation)

`OpinHelpers` is just requiring individual libraries that each has its own repository and documentation

- [Math](https://github.com/fab2s/Math): High precision base10 fluent helper with a rather strict approach
- [Utf8](https://github.com/fab2s/Utf8): Purely static UTF8 Helper
- [Strings](https://github.com/fab2s/Strings): Purely static String Helper to handle more advanced utf8 string manipulations
- [Bom](https://github.com/fab2s/Bom): Purely static zero dependencies BOM Helper to handle unicode BOMs
- [FileLock](https://github.com/fab2s/FileLock): fluent file locking *helper*

Compatibility
-------------

[](#compatibility)

`OpinHelpers` comes with a `deprecated.php` file you can `require` in your project should you need to keep using the old `namespace` from before **v1**

```
require 'vendor/fab2s/opinHelpers/src/deprecated.php';

// no you can
use fab2s\OpinHelpers\Math;

// same as
use fab2s\Math\Math;

// old version will be marked as deprecated
$number = fab2s\OpinHelpers\Math::numder('42');

// new one is ok with full type hints
$number = fab2s\Math\Math::numder('42');
```

> No notable changes where made to the methods names or signature, but there was some small return types changes (false vs null in `Utf8`), one edge value (`Utf8::chr(0) = "\0"`) and one bug with `UTF-32-LE` BOM detection. It should be ok in most of the cases but it is still preferable to refactor to new `namespace` and review the usage

Requirements
------------

[](#requirements)

`OpinHelpers` is tested against php 7.2, 7.3, 7.4 and 8.0

Contributing
------------

[](#contributing)

Contributions are welcome, do not hesitate to open issues and submit pull requests.

License
-------

[](#license)

Each of `OpinHelpers` components are open-sourced software licensed under the [MIT license](https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)

###  Health Score

40

—

FairBetter than 88% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity40

Moderate usage in the ecosystem

Community10

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 ~440 days

Recently: every ~500 days

Total

6

Last Release

755d ago

Major Versions

0.x-dev → 1.0.02019-09-20

PHP version history (3 changes)0.0.1PHP >=5.6

1.0.0PHP >=7.1

1.0.1PHP ^7.1|^8.0

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/7323989?v=4)[fab2s](/maintainers/fab2s)[@fab2s](https://github.com/fab2s)

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Top Contributors

[![fab2s](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/7323989?v=4)](https://github.com/fab2s "fab2s (43 commits)")

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Tags

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