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[Utility & Helpers](/categories/utility) 4. / 5. lorisleiva/cron-translator ActiveLibrary[Utility & Helpers](/categories/utility) lorisleiva/cron-translator ========================== Makes CRON expressions human-readable v0.5.1(1mo ago)3148.5M—2.2%61[2 issues](https://github.com/lorisleiva/cron-translator/issues)[1 PRs](https://github.com/lorisleiva/cron-translator/pulls)20MITPHPPHP ^8.0CI passing Since Jul 7Pushed 1mo ago6 watchersCompare [ Source](https://github.com/lorisleiva/cron-translator)[ Packagist](https://packagist.org/packages/lorisleiva/cron-translator)[ Docs](https://github.com/lorisleiva/cron-translator)[ GitHub Sponsors](https://github.com/lorisleiva)[ RSS](/packages/lorisleiva-cron-translator/feed)WikiDiscussions main Synced 1mo ago READMEChangelog (10)Dependencies (2)Versions (18)Used By (20) CRON Translator =============== [](#cron-translator) ⏰️ Makes CRON expressions human-readable [![intro-rounded](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/3642397/60768671-7d6c7100-a0be-11e9-8cee-8a8d2780d76f.png)](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/3642397/60768671-7d6c7100-a0be-11e9-8cee-8a8d2780d76f.png) Installation ------------ [](#installation) ``` composer require lorisleiva/cron-translator ``` Usage ----- [](#usage) ``` use Lorisleiva\CronTranslator\CronTranslator; CronTranslator::translate('* * * * *'); // => Every minute CronTranslator::translate('30 22 * * *'); // => Every day at 10:30pm CronTranslator::translate('0 16 * * 1'); // => Every Monday at 4:00pm CronTranslator::translate('0 0 1 1 *'); // => Every year on January the 1st at 12:00am CronTranslator::translate('0 0 1 * *'); // => The 1st of every month at 12:00am CronTranslator::translate('0 * * * 1'); // => Once an hour on Mondays CronTranslator::translate('* 1-20 * * *'); // => Every minute 20 hours a day CronTranslator::translate('0,30 * * * *'); // => Twice an hour CronTranslator::translate('0 1-5 * * *'); // => 5 times a day CronTranslator::translate('0 1 1-5 * *'); // => 5 days a month at 1:00am CronTranslator::translate('*/2 * * * *'); // => Every 2 minutes CronTranslator::translate('* 1/3 2 * *'); // => Every minute of every 3 hours on the 2nd of every month CronTranslator::translate('1-3/5 * * * *'); // => 3 times every 5 minutes CronTranslator::translate('1,2 0 */2 1,2 *'); // => Twice an hour every 2 days 2 months a year at 12am ``` You may also provide a locale as a second argument and whether to format the time using the 24-hour format as a third argument. ``` CronTranslator::translate('30 18 * * *', 'fr'); // => Chaque jour à 6:30pm CronTranslator::translate('30 18 * * *', 'fr', true); // => Chaque jour à 18:30 ``` The following locales are currently supported. Feel free to PR more locales if you need them. 🙂 - `ar` — Arabic - `cs` — Czech - `da` — Danish - `de` — German - `en` — English - `es` — Spanish - `fr` — French - `hi` — Hindi - `lv` — Latvian - `nl` — Dutch - `pl` — Polish - `pt` — Portuguese - `ro` — Romanian - `ru` — Russian - `sk` — Slovak - `ua` — Ukrainian - `vi` — Vietnamese - `zh` — Simplified Chinese - `zh-TW` — Traditional Chinese ### Health Score 67 — FairBetter than 100% of packages Maintenance89 Actively maintained with recent releases Popularity66 Solid adoption and visibility Community40 Growing community involvement Maturity62 Established project with proven stability Bus Factor1 Top contributor holds 65.8% 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. 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