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hoa-math-community/zformat
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The Hoa\\Zformat library.

v2.0.0(3y ago)01.1k↓25%1BSD-3-ClausePHPPHP ~8.0

Since Jan 14Pushed 3y agoCompare

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 Hoa is a **modular**, **extensible** and **structured** set of PHP libraries.
 Moreover, Hoa aims at being a bridge between industrial and research worlds.

Hoa\\Zformat
============

[](#hoazformat)

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This library provides a new format called zFormat, used to express complex parameters, for instance for classes.

[Learn more](https://central.hoa-project.net/Documentation/Library/Zformat).

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

[](#installation)

With [Composer](https://getcomposer.org/), to include this library into your dependencies, you need to require [`hoa/zformat`](https://packagist.org/packages/hoa/zformat):

```
$ composer require hoa/zformat '~1.0'
```

For more installation procedures, please read [the Source page](https://hoa-project.net/Source.html).

Testing
-------

[](#testing)

Before running the test suites, the development dependencies must be installed:

```
$ composer install
```

Then, to run all the test suites:

```
$ vendor/bin/hoa test:run
```

For more information, please read the [contributor guide](https://hoa-project.net/Literature/Contributor/Guide.html).

Quick usage
-----------

[](#quick-usage)

…

Documentation
-------------

[](#documentation)

The [hack book of `Hoa\Zformat`](https://central.hoa-project.net/Documentation/Library/Zformat)contains detailed information about how to use this library and how it works.

To generate the documentation locally, execute the following commands:

```
$ composer require --dev hoa/devtools
$ vendor/bin/hoa devtools:documentation --open
```

More documentation can be found on the project's website: [hoa-project.net](https://hoa-project.net/).

Getting help
------------

[](#getting-help)

There are mainly two ways to get help:

- On the [`#hoaproject`](https://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#hoaproject)IRC channel,
- On the forum at [users.hoa-project.net](https://users.hoa-project.net).

Contribution
------------

[](#contribution)

Do you want to contribute? Thanks! A detailed [contributor guide](https://hoa-project.net/Literature/Contributor/Guide.html) explains everything you need to know.

License
-------

[](#license)

Hoa is under the New BSD License (BSD-3-Clause). Please, see [`LICENSE`](https://hoa-project.net/LICENSE) for details.

###  Health Score

34

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LowBetter than 77% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity18

Limited adoption so far

Community13

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity71

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 81.3% 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 ~842 days

Total

4

Last Release

1246d ago

Major Versions

1.17.01.10 → v2.0.02022-12-17

### Community

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