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inanepain/polyfill
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Various Polyfill functions for php backwards compatibility.

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inanepain/polyfill
==================

[](#inanepainpolyfill)

Table of Contents

- [![icon](./icon.png "inanepain/polyfill") inanepain/polyfill](#inanepainpolyfill)
- [1. Install](#install)
- [2. Overview](#overview)

[![icon](./icon.png "inanepain/polyfill")](./icon.png) inanepain/polyfill
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[](#-inanepainpolyfill)

Various Polyfill functions for php backwards compatibility.

1. Install
----------

[](#1-install)

composer

```
composer require inanepain/polyfill
```

2. Overview
-----------

[](#2-overview)

Various Polyfill functions for php backwards compatibility.

polyfill todo list

- ❏ the `is_iterable` function introduced in PHP 7.1;
- ❏ the `enum_exists` function introduced in PHP 8.1;
- ❏ the `spl_object_id` and `stream_isatty` functions introduced in PHP 7.2;
- ❏ the `hrtime` function introduced in PHP 7.3;
- ❏ the `get_mangled_object_vars`, `mb_str_split` and `password_algos` functions introduced in PHP 7.4;
- ❏ the fdiv function introduced in PHP 8.0;
- ❏ the `get_debug_type` function introduced in PHP 8.0;
- ❏ the `get_resource_id` function introduced in PHP 8.0;
- ❏ the `Attribute` class introduced in PHP 8.0;
- ✓ the `array_column`, boolval, json\_last\_error\_msg and hash\_pbkdf2 functions introduced in PHP 5.5;
- ✓ the `PhpToken` class introduced in PHP 8.0 when \* \[ \] the tokenizer extension is enabled;
- ✓ the `Stringable` interface introduced in PHP 8.0;
- ✓ the `is_countable` function introduced in PHP 7.3;
- ✓ the `array_is_list` function introduced in PHP 8.1;
- ✓ the `array_key_first` and `array_key_last` functions introduced in PHP 7.3;
- ✓ the `str_contains` function introduced in PHP 8.0;
- ✓ the `str_starts_with` and `str_ends_with` functions introduced in PHP 8.0;

###  Health Score

28

—

LowBetter than 52% of packages

Maintenance65

Regular maintenance activity

Popularity2

Limited adoption so far

Community9

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity34

Early-stage or recently created project

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 68.8% 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 ~232 days

Total

2

Last Release

1105d ago

PHP version history (2 changes)0.1.0PHP >=8.1

0.2.0PHP >=5.0

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1823594?v=4)[Philip Michael Raab](/maintainers/inanepain)[@inanepain](https://github.com/inanepain)

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Top Contributors

[![inanepain](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1823594?v=4)](https://github.com/inanepain "inanepain (11 commits)")[![philipmraab](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/177214788?v=4)](https://github.com/philipmraab "philipmraab (5 commits)")

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Tags

compatibilityportablepolyfillshiminane

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