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gulasz101/gettype
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Small quality of live improvement providing gettype function that returns enum.

v1.0.0(2y ago)06Apache-2.0PHPPHP ^8.1

Since Oct 4Pushed 2y ago1 watchersCompare

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Small quality of live improvement.

Provides small enum and a `gettype` function which instead of set of strings as original `\gettype` does, returns proper enum value.

Especially when you are running with phpstan level max.

So to avoid annoying:

```
Diagnostics:
1. Parameter #1 $externalUrl of class CLI\SayHelloFromExternalServerCommand constructor expects string, string|false given.

```

Do:

```
use function gulasz101\gettype;

$app->add(new SayHalloFromDBCommand(
    new PDO(
        match (gettype($dsn = getenv('CLI_DB_DSN'))) {
            Type::BOOLEAN => throw new RuntimeException('CLI_DB_DSN env is missing'),
            Type::STRING => $dsn,
            default => throw new RuntimeException('CLI_DB_DSN env is setup with wrong type'),
        }
    ))
);
```

Install it with:

```
composer require gulasz101/gettype
```

###  Health Score

23

—

LowBetter than 27% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity4

Limited adoption so far

Community7

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity51

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

956d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d30628bc5ba57f76c9ff47f69a72d37dcdd2004c775fb24969cbee2cae8dbf54?d=identicon)[gulasz101](/maintainers/gulasz101)

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Top Contributors

[![gulasz101](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/5440332?v=4)](https://github.com/gulasz101 "gulasz101 (1 commits)")

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Tags

phptypePHPStanenumanalyzergettype

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