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lewis-dun/indefinite-article
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Grammatical utility for prepending an indefinite article to a word

1.1.0(3y ago)02.6kBSD-2-ClausePHPPHP ^5.6 || ^7.0 || ^8.0

Since Dec 6Pushed 3y agoCompare

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indefinite-article
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[](#indefinite-article)

This is a PHP port of the Lingua::EN::Inflect Perl module's A() subroutine.

The best way to use it is with [Composer](https://getcomposer.org/): `php composer.phar require thaumatic/indefinite-article`

Then you can `use Thaumatic\IndefiniteArticle;` and `echo 'This is ' . IndefiniteArticle::a('test');`

Original module Copyright (c) 1997-2009 Damian Conway.

Previous adaptation by Niko Salminen ()

Further work by Thaumatic Systems, LLC ()

###  Health Score

33

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LowBetter than 75% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity20

Limited adoption so far

Community9

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity69

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor2

2 contributors hold 50%+ of commits

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 ~2023 days

Total

2

Last Release

1428d ago

PHP version history (2 changes)1.0.0PHP ^5.6 || ^7.0

1.1.0PHP ^5.6 || ^7.0 || ^8.0

### Community

Maintainers

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Top Contributors

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Tags

phptextgrammar

###  Code Quality

TestsPHPUnit

Static AnalysisPHPStan

Type Coverage Yes

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