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nilportugues/hal
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HAL+JSON & HAL+XML API transformer outputting valid API responses.

2.1.0(9y ago)317.7k2MITPHP >=5.5.0

Since Aug 15Compare

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###  Health Score

34

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LowBetter than 77% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity27

Limited adoption so far

Community6

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity67

Established project with proven stability

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 ~36 days

Recently: every ~113 days

Total

17

Last Release

3336d ago

Major Versions

1.0.11 → 2.0.02015-12-26

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/beba5d66ff48128da92c91850e69b9294768718bcdc12e61cc9ee8453d0d6b69?d=identicon)[nilportugues](/maintainers/nilportugues)

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Tags

responsejsonapipsr7serializerhaltransformer

###  Code Quality

TestsPHPUnit

Code StylePHP CS Fixer

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