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lakshanjs/profanity-filter
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A flexible profanity filter for PHP.

v1.1(1y ago)1187—0%MITPHPPHP >=7.0

Since Sep 24Pushed 1y ago1 watchersCompare

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Profanity Filter
================

[](#profanity-filter)

A flexible PHP profanity filter that allows you to set custom bad words, replacement characters, and exclusion lists.

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

[](#installation)

You can install the package via Composer:

```
composer require lakshanjs/profanity-filter

```

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

```
require 'vendor/autoload.php';

use LakshanJS\ProfanityFilter\ProfanityFilter;

$filter = new ProfanityFilter();
$filter->setBadWords(['badword1', 'badword2']);
$filter->setReplacementChar('*');
$filteredMessage = $filter->censor("This is a badword1");
echo $filteredMessage; // Output: This is a ******
```

###  Health Score

26

—

LowBetter than 43% of packages

Maintenance38

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity16

Limited adoption so far

Community7

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity35

Early-stage or recently created project

 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 ~0 days

Total

2

Last Release

592d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7646f42a475b03098fb92e7dbec224cfabc712ac70950ee0b7337b361036d994?d=identicon)[lakshanjs](/maintainers/lakshanjs)

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Top Contributors

[![lakshanjs](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/7899504?v=4)](https://github.com/lakshanjs "lakshanjs (3 commits)")

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