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opis/string
===========

Multibyte strings as objects

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Opis String
===========

[](#opis-string)

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Multibyte strings
-----------------

[](#multibyte-strings)

**Opis String** is a tiny library that allows you to work with multibyte encoded strings in an object-oriented manner. The library has no dependencies to *mb\_string* or similar PHP extensions.

Documentation
-------------

[](#documentation)

The full documentation for this library can be found [here](https://opis.io/string).

License
-------

[](#license)

**Opis String** is licensed under the [Apache License, Version 2.0](https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 "Apache License").

Requirements
------------

[](#requirements)

- PHP ^7.4 || ^8.0
- ext-json
- ext-iconv

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

[](#installation)

**Opis String** is available on [Packagist](https://packagist.org/packages/opis/string "Packagist"), and it can be installed from a command line interface by using [Composer](https://getcomposer.org "Composer").

```
composer require opis/string
```

Or you could directly reference it into your `composer.json` file as a dependency

```
{
    "require": {
        "opis/string": "^2.1"
    }
}
```

###  Health Score

61

—

FairBetter than 99% of packages

Maintenance65

Regular maintenance activity

Popularity62

Solid adoption and visibility

Community27

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity75

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 79.4% 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 ~280 days

Recently: every ~574 days

Total

13

Last Release

213d ago

Major Versions

1.x-dev → 2.0.02021-04-13

PHP version history (3 changes)1.0.0PHP >=5.3.0

1.5.0PHP >=7.0.0

2.0.0PHP ^7.4 || ^8.0

### Community

Maintainers

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Top Contributors

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Tags

multibyte-stringsopisphpstringutf-8stringopisstring manipulationmulti-byte

###  Code Quality

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