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patrickschur/cologne-phonetic
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Implementation of Cologne Phonetics (Kölner Phonetik) in PHP.

v1.0(9y ago)1511MITPHPPHP ^7.1

Since Dec 30Pushed 7y ago1 watchersCompare

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cologne-phonetic
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[](#cologne-phonetic)

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Implementation of Cologne Phonetics (Kölner Phonetik) in PHP.

Install via Composer
--------------------

[](#install-via-composer)

```
$ composer require patrickschur/cologne-phonetic
```

Basic Usage
-----------

[](#basic-usage)

```
use ColognePhonetic\ColognePhonetic;

$n = new ColognePhonetic;

echo $n->convert('Wikipedia'); // outputs "3412"
```

###  Health Score

27

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LowBetter than 49% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity11

Limited adoption so far

Community8

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity58

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% 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

Unknown

Total

1

Last Release

3417d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/fb79131c7f6c10c12c85ece2ff6a790ae73d9d2127d6819733b7a41a03769bc5?d=identicon)[patrickschur](/maintainers/patrickschur)

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Top Contributors

[![patrickschur](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/18181635?v=4)](https://github.com/patrickschur "patrickschur (9 commits)")

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Tags

cologne-phoneticsphonetic-algorithmphpphoneticcolognekölnerphonetik

###  Code Quality

TestsPHPUnit

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