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moharram82/helpers
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A collection of useful PHP functions for different purposes.

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Helpers
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[](#helpers)

A collection of useful PHP functions for different purposes.

Functions
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[](#functions)

- `getMySQLEnumValues`: Extracts options from MySQL's enum field definition into an array: enum('male','female').
- `validUsername`: Checks if the supplied string is a valid username that is: english only, no spaces, starts with letters only, contains only letters, numbers and underscores but does not end with an underscore.
- `isPasswordStrong`: Checks if password is strong containing at least: 1 uppercase letter, 1 lowercase letter, 1 number, 8 characters long.
- `isEnglish`: Checks if text is in english only letters.
- `validTimestamp`: Checks if a string is a valid timestamp.
- `removeHttpProtocol`: Removes protocol prefix (http://) or (https://) from a link.
- `trimExtraSpace`: Removes any extra white spaces from the beginning, end, and in between words.
- `cleanText`: Cleans text from any html and duplicate spaces or new lines.
- `validEmail`: Checks if the string is a valid email address.
- `validDate`: Checks if string is a valid date.
- `validUrl`: Checks if string is a valid URL address.
- `calculateAge`: Calculates the age for a given birth date and returns the age in years, months, days, decimal.
- `imgResize`: Resizes an image.
- `getIP`: Returns the IP address of the current internet session.
- `getUseragent`: Returns the useragent string of the current internet session.
- `randomString`: Generates random alpha-numeric string.
- `isWindows`: Checks if the current environment is Windows based.
- `removeDir`: Recursively deletes a directory and its entire contents.
- `scanDirForFiles`: Scans a dir and return an array of files based on file extension (jpg|png|gif).

###  Health Score

25

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LowBetter than 37% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity7

Limited adoption so far

Community7

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 ~172 days

Total

3

Last Release

2197d ago

### Community

Maintainers

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Top Contributors

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