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jfcherng/php-levenshtein-distance
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Calculate the Levenshtein distance and edit progresses between two strings.

4.0.2(3y ago)210.4k↑122.7%[1 PRs](https://github.com/jfcherng/php-levenshtein-distance/pulls)MITPHP >=7.4

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###  Health Score

35

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LowBetter than 80% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity28

Limited adoption so far

Community2

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity71

Established project with proven stability

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 ~84 days

Recently: every ~341 days

Total

18

Last Release

1448d ago

Major Versions

1.0.1 → 2.0.02018-06-28

2.3.5 → 3.0.02019-02-06

3.0.0 → 4.0.02019-02-21

PHP version history (3 changes)1.0.0PHP ^7.1.3

4.0.1PHP >=7.1.3

4.0.2PHP >=7.4

### Community

Maintainers

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Tags

edit-progresslevenshtein-distance

###  Code Quality

TestsPHPUnit

Code StylePHP CS Fixer

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