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komex/influence
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Mocking any objects and classes

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Influence
=========

[](#influence)

**Influence** is the PHP library gives you ability to mock any objects and static classes. Works only if you use Composer autoloader. This library very useful for testing your code.

Requirements
------------

[](#requirements)

- PHP 5.4 or higher
- SPL extension
- Tokenizer extension
- Composer loader

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

[](#installation)

To add Influence as a local, per-project dependency to your project, simply add a dependency on `komex/influence` to your project's `composer.json` file. Here is a minimal example of a `composer.json` file that just defines a develop dependency on Influence:

```
{
    "require-dev": {
        "komex/influence": "1.1.*"
    }
}
```

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

**Influence** must be injected as early as possible. If you are using unit test framework like [unteist](https://github.com/komex/unteist) or [PHPUnit](https://phpunit.de/) the best way to do this is include autoload and influence in bootstrap file.

```
require 'vendor/autoload.php';
Influence\Influence::affect();
```

Since this moment you are able to mock any objects and static classes. By default, all objects behave as usual. You need to configure behavior of each object or class you need to control.

### Manage objects

[](#manage-objects)

Let imagine we have a simple class A:

```
class A
{
    public function sum($a)
    {
        return $a + $this->rand(0, $a);
    }
    private fuction rand($min, $max)
    {
        return rand($min, $max);
    }
}
```

#### Custom method behavior.

[](#custom-method-behavior)

So, if we create an object of class `A` we can invoke only `sum()` method and control only `$a` and never know result of our operation.

```
$a = new A();
echo $a->sum(1); // ??
echo $a->sum(7); // ??
```

But with **Influence** you can simply test this code. Just specify the behavior of `sum()` like this:

```
$a = new A();
$method = Influence\RemoteControl::controlObject($a)->get('rand');
$method->setValue(new Value(1));
echo $a->sum(1); // 2
echo $a->sum(7); // 8
$method->setValue();
echo $a->sum(1); // ??
echo $a->sum(7); // ??
```

#### Log method calls

[](#log-method-calls)

If you don't need to set custom method behavior, but want to know how many times method was called and with what arguments.

```
$a = new A();
$method = Influence\RemoteControl::controlObject($a)->get('rand');
$method->setLog(true);
echo $a->sum(1); // ??
echo $a->sum(7); // ??
var_dump($method->getLogs()); // [ [0, 1], [0, 7] ]
```

License
-------

[](#license)

Influence by [Andrey Kolchenko](https://github.com/komex) is licensed under a [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).

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###  Health Score

26

—

LowBetter than 43% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity8

Limited adoption so far

Community5

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity60

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 ~21 days

Total

2

Last Release

4206d ago

### Community

Maintainers

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---

Tags

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###  Code Quality

TestsPHPUnit

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