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onesimus-systems/osreadline
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OSReadLine
----------

[](#osreadline)

OSReadLine (OS for Onesimus Systems) is a readline alternative for PHP. It fully supports unicode characters and implements the basic readline functionality such as history, line editing, and key mapping.

Example:

```
include 'readline.php';

$readline = new onesimus\readline\Readline();
$line = $readline->readLine('prompt> ');
echo $line;
```

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

[](#installation)

You can install OSReadLine by cloning this git repo, or with composer.

Composer:

```
{
    "require": {
        "onesimus-systems/osreadline": "dev-master"
    }
}
```

Credits
-------

[](#credits)

Inspiration and help was taken from the readline implementation in the [Hoa\\Console library](https://github.com/hoaproject/Console).

###  Health Score

21

—

LowBetter than 18% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity9

Limited adoption so far

Community8

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity41

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 80% 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.

### Community

Maintainers

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Top Contributors

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