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ignasbernotas/phkey
===================

A PHP based API to capture key presses from the terminal.

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PHKey
=====

[](#phkey)

PHP based command line key listener.

[![Example](https://camo.githubusercontent.com/e786e0f0cd65d199a4330dda77602bbda20776e07f6f790eb0b4fd5c9cbe1fe4/68747470733a2f2f696265722e6c742f6173736574732f696d616765732f70726f6a656374732f70686b65792e676966)](https://camo.githubusercontent.com/e786e0f0cd65d199a4330dda77602bbda20776e07f6f790eb0b4fd5c9cbe1fe4/68747470733a2f2f696265722e6c742f6173736574732f696d616765732f70726f6a656374732f70686b65792e676966)
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[](#php-based-command-line-key-listener)

This library provides an API to capture keys from the terminal. It currently supports latin-basic range of characters such as direction keys, function keys (F\*), enter, space, insert, delete, backspace, escape, a-z, etc.

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

[](#installation)

You can either download this library as a zip, or simply install it via composer:

```
composer require ignasbernotas/phkey

```

Limitations
-----------

[](#limitations)

This package only works on UNIX/Linux based systems since the Windows PHP version doesn't not support the readline extension.

Example
-------

[](#example)

##### Capture all keys

[](#capture-all-keys)

```
use \Iber\Phkey\Events\KeyPressEvent;
use \Iber\Phkey\Environment\Detector;

$detect = new Detector();
$listener = $detect->getListenerInstance();

$eventDispatcher = $listener->getEventDispatcher();

$eventDispatcher->addListener('key:press', function(KeyPressEvent $event) {
    echo $event->getKey(), PHP_EOL;
});

$eventDispatcher->addListener('key:enter', function(KeyPressEvent $event) use ($eventDispatcher) {
    echo 'Key "', $event->getKey(), '" was pressed. Quitting listener.', PHP_EOL;

    // notify the listener to stop
    $eventDispatcher->dispatch('key:stop:listening');
});

$listener->start();
```

License
-------

[](#license)

Licensed under MIT.

###  Health Score

26

—

LowBetter than 46% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity17

Limited adoption so far

Community9

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity49

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

Every ~71 days

Total

2

Last Release

3631d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/9eaa43c7213e1c9803bda2818792373a21b3078a01631d0ffe04410de64e26ef?d=identicon)[ignasbernotas](/maintainers/ignasbernotas)

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Top Contributors

[![iberflow](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/402965?v=4)](https://github.com/iberflow "iberflow (6 commits)")

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Tags

clikeyskeyboardkey press

###  Code Quality

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