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jjware/phpcollectionjson
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PHP classes for building a Collection+JSON response

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PhpCollectionJson
=================

[](#phpcollectionjson)

PHP classes for building a Collection+JSON response.

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

[](#installation)

```
composer require jjware/phpcollectionjson

```

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

### Creating a response

[](#creating-a-response)

```
use PhpCollectionJson\Document;
use PhpCollectionJson\Collection;
use PhpCollectionJson\Item;
use PhpCollectionJson\Data;

$document = new Document();
$collection = new Collection('http://www.somesite.com/users');
$document->setCollection($collection);

$item = new Item('http://www.somesite.com/users/123');
$item->getData()
    ->add(new Data('firstName', 'John'))
    ->add(new Data('lastName', 'Smith'))
    ->add(new Data('username', 'jsmith'));

$collection->getItems()->add($item);

echo json_encode($document);
```

### Building from a response

[](#building-from-a-response)

#### The JSON

[](#the-json)

```
{
  "collection": {
    "version": "1.0",
    "href": "http://www.somesite.com/users",
    "items": [
      {
        "href": "http://www.somesite.com/users/123",
        "data": [
          {
            "name": "firstName",
            "value": "John"
          },
          {
            "name": "lastName",
            "value": "Smith"
          },
          {
            "name": "username",
            "value": "jsmith"
          }
        ]
      }
    ]
  }
}
```

#### The PHP

[](#the-php)

```
use PhpCollectionJson\Document;

$json = file_get_contents('http://www.somesite.com/users'); // don't do this at home kids

$document = Document::fromJSON($json);

$firstName = $document->getCollection()->getItems()->elementAt(0)->getData()->elementAt(0)->getValue();

// $firstName === 'John'
```

###  Health Score

30

—

LowBetter than 62% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity17

Limited adoption so far

Community7

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity62

Established project with proven stability

 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 ~1 days

Total

5

Last Release

3550d ago

Major Versions

2.0.0 → 3.0.02016-10-10

### Community

Maintainers

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Top Contributors

[![senojj](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/5853354?v=4)](https://github.com/senojj "senojj (12 commits)")

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Tags

jsonlibrarycollectionscollectionjson

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