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mreschke/helpers
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Mreschke Helpers

5.3.0(3y ago)02.4k1[1 PRs](https://github.com/mreschke/helpers/pulls)1MITPHP

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mreschke-helpers
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Misc helper functions

###  Health Score

33

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LowBetter than 75% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity18

Limited adoption so far

Community11

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity70

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 ~182 days

Recently: every ~3 days

Total

11

Last Release

1289d ago

Major Versions

1.0.17 → 2.0.02017-11-01

2.0.x-dev → 5.3.02022-11-01

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/45b6eb88f55f72b1e6ad5bcb997aa98f7026af9a0933517efb344d452f987095?d=identicon)[mreschke](/maintainers/mreschke)

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Top Contributors

[![mreschke](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/4038770?v=4)](https://github.com/mreschke "mreschke (40 commits)")

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Tags

helpersmreschke

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