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firehed/cbor
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CBOR decoder

0.1.0(7y ago)128.0k↓25%1[1 PRs](https://github.com/Firehed/cbor-php/pulls)3MITPHP

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CBOR-PHP
========

[](#cbor-php)

Tools for working with the [CBOR](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7049) data format in PHP

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

[](#installation)

`composer require firehed/cbor`

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

Note: Only decoding is supporing at this time

### Decoding

[](#decoding)

```
$decoder = new Firehed\CBOR\Decoder();

$binaryString = "\x18\x64"; // CBOR for int(100)
$data = $decoder->decode($binaryString);

// OR
$byteArray = [24, 100];
$data = $decoder->decodeArrayOfBytes($byteArray);
```

There is currently very limited support for [tagged types](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7049#section-2.4). When an unsupported tag is encountered, an `OutOfBoundsException` will be thrown.

Tagged type support
-------------------

[](#tagged-type-support)

- 0 DateTime as string
- 1 DateTime as epoch
- 2 Positive Bignum (returns as string, requires `bcmath`)
- 3 Negative Bignum (same)
- 4 Decimal fraction
- 5 Bigfloat
- 21 base64url string
- 22 base64 string
- 23 base16 string
- 24 CBOR
- 32 URI
- 33 base64url
- 34 base64
- 35 regexp
- 36 MIME message
- 55799 Self-describing CBOR

###  Health Score

31

—

LowBetter than 68% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity30

Limited adoption so far

Community13

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity49

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

2562d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/354842?v=4)[Eric Stern](/maintainers/Firehed)[@Firehed](https://github.com/Firehed)

---

Top Contributors

[![Firehed](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/354842?v=4)](https://github.com/Firehed "Firehed (4 commits)")

---

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cbor

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