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firehed/plow
============

CLI tools to get PHP done quickly

0.0.2(10y ago)039MITPHPPHP >=5.6

Since Jun 25Pushed 10y ago1 watchersCompare

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Plow
====

[](#plow)

Description
-----------

[](#description)

Plow is designed to be your new best friend when developing PHP application. At its core, it's just a plugin infrastructure for various command-line tools.

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

[](#installation)

Plow should be globally installed with Composer. Follow [these instructions](https://getcomposer.org/doc/00-intro.md#globally) to install Composer if you don't have it yet.

```
composer global require firehed/plow

```

If you have not done so already, you should append Composer's global bin directory to your path:

```
echo "export PATH=\$PATH:~/.composer/vendor/bin" >> ~/.bash_profile
source ~/.bash_profile

```

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

Running `plow` with no arguments on the command line will provide detailed usage instrictions:

```
plow

```

Adding commands
---------------

[](#adding-commands)

Plow commands are Composer packages with the type specified as `plow-command`. While not directly shown in the UI, you can [search Packagist by type](https://packagist.org/search/?type=plow-command)Once you find what you're looking for, install it globally like any other package:

```
composer global require vendor-name/plow-command-package-name

```

Developing new commands
-----------------------

[](#developing-new-commands)

See [CREATING\_COMMANDS.md](CREATING_COMMANDS.md)

Contributing to Plow
--------------------

[](#contributing-to-plow)

See [CONTRIBUTING.md](CONTRIBUTING.md)

###  Health Score

23

—

LowBetter than 27% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity7

Limited adoption so far

Community7

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

Every ~0 days

Total

2

Last Release

3980d 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 (47 commits)")

###  Code Quality

TestsPHPUnit

### Embed Badge

![Health badge](/badges/firehed-plow/health.svg)

```
[![Health](https://phpackages.com/badges/firehed-plow/health.svg)](https://phpackages.com/packages/firehed-plow)
```

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