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mascame/formality
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Form fields type guesser. Tries to detect the field type based on the name and the given config.

1.0.0(8y ago)0731MITPHPPHP >=7.0.0

Since Apr 6Pushed 8y ago1 watchersCompare

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Formality
=========

[](#formality)

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Form fields type guesser. Tries to detect the field type based on the name and the given config.

Installation
============

[](#installation)

`composer require mascame/formality`

Usage
=====

[](#usage)

```
$types = [
    'password' => [], // will match the keyword `password`
    'text' => [
        'autodetect' => [
            'title',
        ]
    ],
    'textarea' => [
        'autodetect' => [
            'body',
        ],
    ],
    'datetime' => [
        'regex' => [
            '/_at$/'
        ],
    ],
];

$parser = new Mascame\Formality\Parser\Parser($types);

print $parser->parse('title');  // text
print $parser->parse('body');  // textarea
print $parser->parse('created_at');  // datetime
print $parser->parse('password');  // password
```

Run Tests
=========

[](#run-tests)

`vendor/bin/codecept run unit`

###  Health Score

28

—

LowBetter than 51% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity9

Limited adoption so far

Community9

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity63

Established project with proven stability

 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 ~90 days

Recently: every ~103 days

Total

7

Last Release

3240d ago

Major Versions

0.0.6-beta → 1.0.02017-10-01

PHP version history (2 changes)0.0.2PHP >=5.5.9

1.0.0PHP >=7.0.0

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/9570e08dbb97ee61a22ae78624fd6b86ce62e0a89120fe40b5bde23d4a22eb6d?d=identicon)[marcmascarell](/maintainers/marcmascarell)

---

Top Contributors

[![marcmascarell](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/642299?v=4)](https://github.com/marcmascarell "marcmascarell (49 commits)")

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Tags

field detection

###  Code Quality

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