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mulertech/char-manipulation
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This class manipulates characters

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CharManipulation
================

[](#charmanipulation)

---

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---

This class manipulates characters

---

Installation
------------

[](#installation)

###### *Two methods to install Application package with composer :*

[](#two-methods-to-install-application-package-with-composer-)

1.

Add to your "**composer.json**" file into require section :

```
"mulertech/char-manipulation": "^1.0"

```

and run the command :

```
php composer.phar update

```

2.

Run the command :

```
php composer.phar require mulertech/char-manipulation "^1.0"

```

---

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

###### *specialCharsTrim, trim and convert special characters to HTML entities :*

[](#specialcharstrim-trim-and-convert-special-characters-to-html-entities-)

```
CharManipulation::specialCharsTrim(' Test trim ');

// 'Test trim'

```

```
CharManipulation::specialCharsTrim('Test without html balise');

// 'Test without html balise'

```

```
CharManipulation::specialCharsTrim([' Test "trim"', 'with', ' array  ', ' and', 'null ', null]);

// ['Test "trim"', 'with', 'array', 'and', 'null', null]

```

###### *specialCharsDecode (decode chars into string or array by reference, no return) :*

[](#specialcharsdecode-decode-chars-into-string-or-array-by-reference-no-return-)

```
$test = ''test single quote';
CharManipulation::specialCharsDecode($test);

// echo $test;
// "'test single quote";

```

```
$test = [
            'test1' => ''test single quote',
            'test2' => 'test quote"',
            'test3' => 'with null',
            'test4' => null,
            'test5' => [
                'test5a' => "'test single quote",
                'test5b' => 'test quote"',
                'test5c' => 'with null',
                'test5d' => null
            ]
        ];
CharManipulation::specialCharsDecode($test);

// echo $test;
// [
        'test1' => "'test single quote",
        'test2' => 'test quote"',
        'test3' => 'with null',
        'test4' => null,
        'test5' => [
            'test5a' => "'test single quote",
            'test5b' => 'test quote"',
            'test5c' => 'with null',
            'test5d' => null
        ]
   ];

```

###  Health Score

42

—

FairBetter than 90% of packages

Maintenance67

Regular maintenance activity

Popularity17

Limited adoption so far

Community11

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity63

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 88.9% 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 ~198 days

Total

5

Last Release

503d ago

PHP version history (4 changes)v1.0.0PHP ^7.3

v1.0.2PHP >=7.3

v1.0.3PHP >=8.2

v1.0.4PHP ^8.2

### Community

Maintainers

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Top Contributors

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---

Tags

open-source

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