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gigablah/sphinxphp
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Sphinx Search PHP 5.3+ API with PSR compliance

2.0.8(12y ago)861.4M—7.9%29[1 issues](https://github.com/gigablah/sphinxphp/issues)16GPL-2.0PHPPHP >=5.3.0

Since Nov 10Pushed 7y ago8 watchersCompare

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READMEChangelogDependencies (2)Versions (6)Used By (16)

Sphinx Search PHP Client
========================

[](#sphinx-search-php-client)

[![Build Status](https://camo.githubusercontent.com/2730afff7df99ca83e971219720810c2ea5dc7b713f1f5b31b836b2623e4f2c9/68747470733a2f2f7472617669732d63692e6f72672f67696761626c61682f737068696e787068702e706e673f6272616e63683d322e302e78)](https://travis-ci.org/gigablah/sphinxphp) [![Coverage Status](https://camo.githubusercontent.com/ce2ed0e96f8e69e590ffd8e3a54c3df2f1d44ffd15b778f616261512fd619f13/68747470733a2f2f636f766572616c6c732e696f2f7265706f732f67696761626c61682f737068696e787068702f62616467652e706e673f6272616e63683d322e302e78)](https://coveralls.io/r/gigablah/sphinxphp?branch=2.0.x)

\[Sphinx\] [1](http://sphinxsearch.com/) is an open source full-text search engine.

This project contains a refactored Sphinx PHP client with some minor differences:

- Compatibility with \[Composer\] [2](http://getcomposer.org/)
- Compliance with \[PSR standards\] [3](https://github.com/php-fig/fig-standards)
- Fluent (chainable) setter functions
- PHPUnit tests

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

[](#installation)

Create a `composer.json` file and run `composer install`:

```
{
    "require": {
        "gigablah/sphinxphp": "2.0.*"
    }
}

```

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

Refer to the official \[documentation\] [4](http://sphinxsearch.com/docs/).

Note: public functions have been changed to lower camelcase in accordance with PSR-1.

License
-------

[](#license)

GNU General Public License version 2 (\[GPL-2.0\] [5](http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html))

###  Health Score

44

—

FairBetter than 92% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity55

Moderate usage in the ecosystem

Community28

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity62

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 76.9% 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 ~71 days

Total

5

Last Release

4653d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/2c9db29bd91fb91e04478866b21aafca02baea586244fe8e0bc2181f4e16e925?d=identicon)[Gigablah](/maintainers/Gigablah)

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Top Contributors

[![gigablah](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/471275?v=4)](https://github.com/gigablah "gigablah (10 commits)")[![lsmonki](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1839992?v=4)](https://github.com/lsmonki "lsmonki (2 commits)")[![styks1111](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/642930?v=4)](https://github.com/styks1111 "styks1111 (1 commits)")

---

Tags

apisearchsphinx

###  Code Quality

TestsPHPUnit

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