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pear/system\_daemon
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A port of the PEAR class to create Daemons with pure PHP

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Since Feb 26Pushed 13y ago1 watchersCompare

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System\_Daemon is a PHP class that allows developers to create their own daemon applications on Linux systems. The class is focussed entirely on creating & spawning standalone daemons

More info at:

- [Blog Article: Create daemons in PHP](http://kevin.vanzonneveld.net/techblog/article/create_daemons_in_php/)
- [Report Issues](http://pear.php.net/bugs/report.php?package=System_Daemon)
- [Package Statistics](http://pear.php.net/package-stats.php?pid=798&cid=37)
- [Package Home](http://pear.php.net/package/System_Daemon)

###  Health Score

32

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LowBetter than 72% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity41

Moderate usage in the ecosystem

Community18

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity41

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 96.7% 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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