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kristianbb/php-emv
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A collection of EMV tools and utilities for PHP 5.3+ (fork of Massimo Lombardo's project)

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PHP EMV
=======

[](#php-emv)

A collection of EMV tools and utilities for PHP 5.3+

**This is a fork of Massimo Lombardo's [project](https://github.com/unwiredbrain/php-emv)**

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

[](#installation)

The recommended way to install PHP EMV is through [Composer](https://getcomposer.org/):

```
$ composer require kristianbb/php-emv
```

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

```
use Emv\Tlv\Codec;
$codecObj = new Codec();
$tags = $codecObj->unserialize($data);
```

Contributing
------------

[](#contributing)

Here are a few basic rules so that nobody gets grumpy:

- every pull request MUST follow the [basic coding standars](http://www.php-fig.org/psr/psr-1), the [coding style guide](http://www.php-fig.org/psr/psr-2) and, where applicable, the [improved autoloding](http://www.php-fig.org/psr/psr-4) recommendations by the [PHP-FIG](http://www.php-fig.org/).
- the unit tests MUST be written or updated
- the test suite MUST succeed entirely
- the documentation MUST be written or updated
- commit messages MUST [make sense](http://tbaggery.com/2008/04/19/a-note-about-git-commit-messages.html)
- the pull request branch MUST be [rebased](http://git-scm.com/book/en/Git-Branching-Rebasing) against the latest `master` branch
- useless commits MUST be [squashed](http://gitready.com/advanced/2009/02/10/squashing-commits-with-rebase.html)

Credits
-------

[](#credits)

- [Massimo Lombardo](https://github.com/unwiredbrain), original author
- [Open source community](https://github.com/unwiredbrain/emv-utils/graphs/contributors)

License
-------

[](#license)

PHP EMV is released under the MIT license. See the bundled `LICENSE` file for details.

###  Health Score

20

—

LowBetter than 14% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity24

Limited adoption so far

Community8

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity23

Early-stage or recently created project

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 54.5% 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.

### Community

Maintainers

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Top Contributors

[![unwiredbrain](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/66809?v=4)](https://github.com/unwiredbrain "unwiredbrain (6 commits)")[![kristianbb](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/94957073?v=4)](https://github.com/kristianbb "kristianbb (5 commits)")

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