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faytekin/lzw
============

Compression library for Lempel–Ziv–Welch (LZW) for PHP

v1.0.0(5y ago)22.4k↑18.5%MITPHPPHP >=7.2

Since Nov 29Pushed 2y ago1 watchersCompare

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faytekin/lzw
============

[](#faytekinlzw)

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Using this package, you may encode string data with [Lempel–Ziv–Welch (LZW)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lempel%E2%80%93Ziv%E2%80%93Welch) algorithm and decode back.

System Requirements
-------------------

[](#system-requirements)

- PHP >=7.2|^8.0
- ext-mbstring - for handling multibyte string (should be available on most systems)

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

[](#installation)

You can install this package via composer:

```
composer require faytekin/lzw
```

Or add the following to your composer file:

```
{
    "require": {
        "faytekin/lzw": "^1.0"
    }
}

```

###  Health Score

27

—

LowBetter than 49% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity23

Limited adoption so far

Community7

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity48

Maturing project, gaining track record

 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

Unknown

Total

1

Last Release

1994d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/fea6ab8454f28af0ac4265b6f7dcbb97c4881dd978aaabd9fa49be0767db4b24?d=identicon)[aytekin](/maintainers/aytekin)

---

Top Contributors

[![faytekin](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/4013224?v=4)](https://github.com/faytekin "faytekin (13 commits)")

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Tags

compressionlzwLZW PHP

###  Code Quality

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