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ianaleck/guard
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Guard is an easy to use, highly customisable PHP validator.

1.0.1(5y ago)138MITPHP >=5.4

Since Nov 18Compare

[ Source](https://github.com/ianaleck/guard)[ Packagist](https://packagist.org/packages/ianaleck/guard)[ Docs](https://github.com/ianaleck/guard)[ RSS](/packages/ianaleck-guard/feed)WikiDiscussions Synced 1mo ago

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###  Health Score

23

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LowBetter than 27% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity9

Limited adoption so far

Community2

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity50

Maturing project, gaining track record

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

2007d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/07d995b14393b66c123e52716f72176044fccd3887609c59f843a80d96d59598?d=identicon)[ianaleck](/maintainers/ianaleck)

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validationvalidate

###  Code Quality

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