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karmabunny/kb
=============

Common KB utilities

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Karmabunny Helpers
==================

[](#karmabunny-helpers)

Just a big bunch of your favourite utilities.

Most of these have been repurposed from Sprout.

Add more if you please.

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

Pin it loosely the latest major version.

```
composer require karmabunny/kb:^2
```

Code standard
-------------

[](#code-standard)

### Keep the dependencies to nil.

[](#keep-the-dependencies-to-nil)

If you need them, then it doesn't belong in this library.

### Must support php 7.0.

[](#must-support-php-70)

But feel free to slip in some ponyfills.

### Add the damn tests.

[](#add-the-damn-tests)

Like, even just the happy-cases.

Running tests
-------------

[](#running-tests)

Create tests whenever you can.

Run them like this: `composer test`.

Deprecation path
----------------

[](#deprecation-path)

Mistakes happen (like Copyable) and sometimes you realise that your naming convention is terrible.

So when removing things, first mark them as `@deprecated` this should signal to anyone using the code that it'll disappear in the next *major* version.

As always, when deprecating + removing things always annotate your release tag. Imagine your life depends on getting it all in there. Is that a threat? Maybe.

### Collections

[](#collections)

Models! Models! Models!

Collections extends DataObject with some array-like, virtual, serializable stuff.

Some optional behavioural traits:

- UpdateStrictTrait
- UpdateTidyTrait
- UpdateVirtualTrait
- FieldsTrait
- CachedHelperTrait

### Validators

[](#validators)

Collection extensions:

- Doc Validator
- Rules Validator

Also the Validity class. Yay.

### Loggable

[](#loggable)

Per-class logging utilities. Has logger forwarding. Kinda interesting.

### Jobs

[](#jobs)

Generic type for crons and workers.

### Reflect

[](#reflect)

Some useful reflection things.

### Serialisation

[](#serialisation)

- Json - normalised encode/decode with exceptions
- XML - now with templating
- Enc
- Url

### Security

[](#security)

- secure random - bytes, string!
- hash password
- comparisons

### Time

[](#time)

- utime, microtime as an integer
- time ago
- converting things between DateTime, DateTimeImmutable, DateTimeInterface
- date periods

### Arrays

[](#arrays)

Non-standard or weakly supported things.

- array first
- array last
- fill w/ callback
- find w/ callback
- flatten!
- queries (aka `value()`)
- create map
- normalise keys
- config loader!

The config loader is particular pleasant. It supports both traditional `$config` and modern `return [];` style configs. Combined with `value()` you can recreate `Kohana::config()` with ease.

### Consts

[](#consts)

- HttpStatus
- CountryNames

### UUID

[](#uuid)

for v1, v4, v5 (the good ones)

### Env

[](#env)

Environment loading from system or a config file.

Also `isDocker()` - super handy.

### FnUtils (Wrap)

[](#fnutils-wrap)

Mostly related to `array_map()` and `array_filter()`.

### CSV

[](#csv)

- Importer
- Exporter

### XML/Dom utils

[](#xmldom-utils)

- Parsing
- Validating
- XPath!
- 'expects'

### URL

[](#url)

- Encode + decode
- URL builder

### Shell utilities

[](#shell-utilities)

- Safe cmd args
- Async + sync interfaces

### CLI utilities

[](#cli-utilities)

- text input
- masked input
- invisible input
- question - bool
- options - with key browsing

###  Health Score

55

—

FairBetter than 97% of packages

Maintenance94

Actively maintained with recent releases

Popularity25

Limited adoption so far

Community23

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity67

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 97.2% 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 ~18 days

Recently: every ~3 days

Total

112

Last Release

31d ago

Major Versions

v1.2.0 → v2.3.02021-03-01

v1.3.0 → v2.4.02021-03-09

v2.36.21 → v3.36.212023-05-01

v3.58.38 → v4.58.382025-11-21

v3.59.38 → v4.60.402026-01-28

PHP version history (2 changes)v2.26.14PHP >=7.0

v3.36.21PHP ^7.2|^8

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/11b33084210490439a6fb2c0b277e0bf39f8d0e368f20bebb703834003a617df?d=identicon)[karmabunny](/maintainers/karmabunny)

---

Top Contributors

[![gwillz](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/3466850?v=4)](https://github.com/gwillz "gwillz (656 commits)")[![jamiemonksuk](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/25573428?v=4)](https://github.com/jamiemonksuk "jamiemonksuk (11 commits)")[![chris-karmabunny](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/210505?v=4)](https://github.com/chris-karmabunny "chris-karmabunny (5 commits)")[![true-jamie](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/225090584?v=4)](https://github.com/true-jamie "true-jamie (2 commits)")[![benno-truevault](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/247051752?v=4)](https://github.com/benno-truevault "benno-truevault (1 commits)")

---

Tags

collectionsutilitieskbkarmabunny

###  Code Quality

TestsPHPUnit

Static AnalysisPHPStan

Type Coverage Yes

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