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litwicki/common
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Helper functions and utilities.

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Litwicki Common
===============

[](#litwicki-common)

A set of helper functions and utilities with a wide variety of use.

- `Litwicki\Common\Common` is great for various string manipulations, validations, and quick formatting.
- `Litwicki\Common\Form` provides helper methods to build arrays and form `select` for common city, state, country elements.
- `Litwicki\Common\Http` provides a helper to parse the Http User Agent to a more readable format.
- `Litwicki\Common\Object` includes methods to convert objects to xml, json, array, and vice versa.
- `Litwicki\Common\TimeAgo` allows you to parse a `DateTime` into a readable string of hours, minutes, and/or seconds ago.

Install
-------

[](#install)

```
$ composer require "litwicki/common"

```

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

Include each of the helpers individually.

```
use Litwicki\Common\Common;
use Litwicki\Common\Form;
use Litwicki\Common\Http;
use Litwicki\Common\Object;
use Litwicki\Common\TimeAgo;

```

###  Health Score

28

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LowBetter than 54% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity15

Limited adoption so far

Community6

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity58

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% of commits — single point of failure

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**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

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**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Unknown

Total

1

Last Release

4007d ago

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