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mensbeam/filesystem
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Simplifies using many of php's built-in filesystem functions

v1.0.2(1y ago)0101↓100%1MITPHPPHP >=8.1

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Filesystem
==========

[](#filesystem)

This is a fork of Symfony's Filesystem component which simplifies php's built-in filesystem functions. A common painpoint in using Symfony's component is that it is unnecessarily instantiated:

```
use Symfony\Component\Filesystem;
$fs = new Filesystem();
$fs->chmod('/path/to/file', 0600);
```

This is awkward because there isn't a reason to instantiate it. There's nothing within Filesystem to create an instance of. There's no defined constructor and no properties to set. In fact only a single static property exists within the class to store the last encountered error. It simply doesn't make any sense. It's especially curious considering the `Path` class that's included with `Filesystem` is itself a static class.

This fork eliminates that nonsense by making everything static:

```
use MensBeam\Filesystem as Fs;
Fs::chmod('/path/to/file', 0600);
```

Note
----

[](#note)

This library uses polyfills for `ext-ctype` and `ext-mbstring`. If you have these extensions installed the polyfills won't run. However, if you don't want the polyfills needlessly installed you can do this in your `composer.json`:

```
{
    "require": {
        "ext-ctype": "*",
        "ext-mbstring": "*"
    },
    "provide": {
        "symfony/polyfill-ctype": "*",
        "symfony/polyfill-mbstring": "*"
    }
}
```

###  Health Score

31

—

LowBetter than 68% of packages

Maintenance39

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity10

Limited adoption so far

Community10

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity56

Maturing project, gaining track record

 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 ~330 days

Total

3

Last Release

515d ago

### Community

Maintainers

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Top Contributors

[![dustinwilson](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1885928?v=4)](https://github.com/dustinwilson "dustinwilson (5 commits)")

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Tags

filefilesystempath

###  Code Quality

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