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league/uri-polyfill
===================

Polyfill backporting PHP 8.5+ native RFC3986/WHATWG URI features to lower PHP versions

7.8.1(2mo ago)06.2k↓16.7%1MITPHPPHP >=8.1CI passing

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URI parsing polyfill for PHP8.1+
================================

[](#uri-parsing-polyfill-for-php81)

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```
$uri = new Uri\Rfc3986\Uri("HTTPS://ex%61mpLE.com:443/foo/../bar/./baz?#fragment");
$uri->toRawString(); // returns "HTTPS://ex%61mpLE.com:443/foo/../bar/./baz?#fragment"
$uri->toString();    // returns "https://example.com:443/bar/baz?#fragment"

$url = new Uri\WhatWg\Url("HTTPS://🐘.com:443/foo/../bar/./baz?#fragment");
echo $url->toAsciiString();   // returns "https://xn--go8h.com/bar/baz?#fragment"
echo $url->toUnicodeString(); // returns "https://🐘.com/bar/baz?#fragment"
```

This package provides a polyfill for the new native PHP URI parsing features to be included in **PHP8.5**. The polyfill works for PHP versions greater or equal to **PHP8.1**

> ⚠️ this is a sub-split, for development, pull requests and issues, visit:

System Requirements
-------------------

[](#system-requirements)

To use the package, you require:

- **PHP >= 8.1** but the latest stable version of PHP is recommended
- [league/uri-interfaces](https://github.com/thephpleague/uri-interfaces)
- [rowbot/url](https://github.com/TRowbotham/URL-Parser)

Tip

If you are using **PHP 8.1**, you **SHOULD** install `symfony/polyfill-php82` to use its `SensitiveParameter` polyfill

Install
-------

[](#install)

Install the package using Composer.

```
composer require league/uri-polyfill:^7.6
```

Documentation
-------------

[](#documentation)

The RFC introduces:

- the `Uri\Rfc3986\Uri` class, an [RFC 3986](https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3986) compliant URI parser
- the `Uri\WhatWg\Url` class, an [WHATWG](https://url.spec.whatwg.org/) compliant URL parser

Full documentation can be found on the [Add RFC 3986 and WHATWG compliant URI parsing support RFC](https://wiki.php.net/rfc/url_parsing_api).

Contributing
============

[](#contributing)

Contributions are welcome and will be fully credited. Please see [CONTRIBUTING](.github/CONTRIBUTING.md) and [CONDUCT](.github/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md) for details.

Security
--------

[](#security)

If you discover any security related issues, please email  instead of using the issue tracker.

Changelog
---------

[](#changelog)

Please see [CHANGELOG](CHANGELOG.md) for more information on what has changed recently.

Credits
-------

[](#credits)

- [Ignace Nyamagana Butera](https://github.com/nyamsprod)
- [All Contributors](https://github.com/bakame-php/aide-uri/graphs/contributors)

License
-------

[](#license)

The MIT License (MIT). Please see [LICENSE](../uri-src/polyfill/LICENSE) for more information.

###  Health Score

45

—

FairBetter than 93% of packages

Maintenance87

Actively maintained with recent releases

Popularity25

Limited adoption so far

Community11

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity47

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 95% 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 ~39 days

Total

4

Last Release

64d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/51073?v=4)[Ignace Nyamagana Butera](/maintainers/nyamsprod)[@nyamsprod](https://github.com/nyamsprod)

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Top Contributors

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Tags

phppolyfillrfc3986whatwg-urlportablepolyfillurlurirfc3986parserresolverWHATWGequivalencecompatibiliy

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