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heydon/redback4
===============

Connection Library to communicate with Redback 4.2+ Server

v1.0.2(11y ago)01361MITPHPPHP >=5.3.0

Since Jun 4Pushed 11y ago1 watchersCompare

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U2 Web Development Environment 4 (RedBack) for PHP
==================================================

[](#u2-web-development-environment-4-redback-for-php)

Provides communication with RocketSoftware’s RedBack 4.2+ server to allow access to the u2 database environments.

This is only a communication class which allows the [RedBack](https://github.com/gheydon/redback) to communicate with the RedBack scheduler (v4.2+) server.

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

[](#installation)

Installation via [composer](http://getcomposer.com) is the only method supported at this stage. Edit your composer.json to add the following.

```
{
    "require": {
        // ...
        "heydon/redback4": "1.0.x"
    }
}
```

\##Usage Using the uObject object you are able make a connection with the back end server.

```
$uObject->connect('RedBack4://127.0.0.1:8401');
```

###  Health Score

28

—

LowBetter than 52% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity10

Limited adoption so far

Community9

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity62

Established project with proven stability

 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 ~172 days

Total

5

Last Release

4085d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/70891?v=4)[Gordon Heydon](/maintainers/gheydon)[@gheydon](https://github.com/gheydon)

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Top Contributors

[![gheydon](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/70891?v=4)](https://github.com/gheydon "gheydon (12 commits)")

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Tags

RedBackRocketSoftwareu2

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