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netsilik/enum
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Strict Enumeration class.

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Enum
====

[](#enum)

Strict Enumeration class.

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MIT Licence

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the Licence is distributed on an "AS IS" basis, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.

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Example of usage

```
// Object creation
final class Species extends Enum {
    protected $enum = array('human','monkey','alien');
}

// Use Enum
function checkSpecies(Species $enum) {
    return ($enum  'alien') ? 'Hello' : 'Waaah!';
}
checkSpecies(new Species('monkey')); // returns 'Hello'

// Use Enum with invalid value
function checkSpecies(Species $enum) {
    return ($enum  'alien') ? 'Hello' : 'Waaah!';
}
checkSpecies(new Species('lion')); // triggers Fatal Error: 'Provided value is not part of this enumerated list'

```

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

[](#installation)

```
composer require netsilik/enum

```

###  Health Score

34

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LowBetter than 74% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity16

Limited adoption so far

Community10

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity75

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% of commits — single point of failure

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**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 ~368 days

Total

5

Last Release

1375d ago

PHP version history (2 changes)2.0.0PHP ^5.5.0 || ^7.0

2.1.0PHP ^8.1

### Community

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