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kittenphp/container
===================

Simple Lightweight container

1.0.0(8y ago)0451MITPHPPHP ^7.0

Since Jan 18Pushed 8y agoCompare

[ Source](https://github.com/kittenphp/container)[ Packagist](https://packagist.org/packages/kittenphp/container)[ RSS](/packages/kittenphp-container/feed)WikiDiscussions master Synced 2w ago

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### Introduced

[](#introduced)

This package is a lightweight service container.

### install

[](#install)

> composer require kittenphp/container

### Example

[](#example)

#### 1. Define the service

[](#1-define-the-service)

Each service is an ordinary PHP class that can provide some functionality:

```
class Service{
    public function show(){
        echo 'hello world! (kittenphp/container)';
    }
}
```

#### 2. Registration service

[](#2-registration-service)

```
use kitten\component\container\Container;
$c=new Container();
$c->set(Service::class,function (){
    return new Service();
});
```

#### 3.Registering Shared Services

[](#3registering-shared-services)

```
$c->share(Service::class,function (){
   return new Service();
});
```

#### 4. Registering multiple services

[](#4-registering-multiple-services)

```
class ServiceProvider implements ServiceProviderInterface{

    function register(ExpandContainerInterface $container)
    {
        $container->share(ServiceA::class,function (){
            return new ServiceA();
        });
        $container->share(ServiceB::class,function (){
            return new ServiceB();
        });
        $container->share(ServiceC::class,function (){
            return new ServiceC();
        });
    }
}
$c->addServiceProvider(new ServiceProvider());
```

#### 5. Get Service

[](#5-get-service)

```
$c->get(Service::class)->show();
```

###  Health Score

26

—

LowBetter than 41% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity8

Limited adoption so far

Community8

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity58

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

Unknown

Total

1

Last Release

3085d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/34338839?v=4)[kittenphp](/maintainers/kittenphp)[@kittenphp](https://github.com/kittenphp)

---

Top Contributors

[![kittenphp](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/34338839?v=4)](https://github.com/kittenphp "kittenphp (1 commits)")

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