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phine/locator
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An implementation of the service locator design pattern.

1.1.0(12y ago)020MITPHPPHP >=5.3.3

Since Sep 18Pushed 12y agoCompare

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Locator
=======

[](#locator)

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An implementation of the service locator design pattern.

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

```
use Phine\Locator\Locator;
use Phine\Locator\Service\AbstractService;
use Phine\Locator\Service\ResolvableInterface;

/**
 * A service that simply gets returned.
 */
class SimpleService extends AbstractService
{
}

/**
 * A service that causes the locator to return something else.
 */
class ResolvedService extends AbstractService implements ResolvableInterface
{
    /**
     * {@inheritDoc}
     */
    public function getResolvedValue()
    {
        return 'Something else.';
    }
}

// create my locator
$locator = new Locator();

// register my services
$locator->registerService('simple', new SimpleService());
$locator->registerService('resolved', new ResolvedService());

// access my services
echo get_class($locator->getService('simple')); // "SimpleService"
echo $locator->resolveService('resolved'); // "Something else."
```

Array accessible version of above:

```
use Phine\Locator\ArrayLocator;

// create my locator
$locator = new ArrayLocator();

// register my services
$locator['simple'] = new SimpleService();
$locator['resolved'] = new ResolvedService();

// access my services
echo get_class($locator['simple']); // "SimpleService"
echo $locator['resolved']; // "Something else."
```

Examples
--------

[](#examples)

Please see the [wiki](https://github.com/phine/lib-locator/wiki) for examples.

Requirement
-----------

[](#requirement)

- PHP >= 5.3.3
- [Phine Exception](https://github.com/phine/lib-exception) >= 1.0.0

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

[](#installation)

Via [Composer](http://getcomposer.org/):

```
$ composer require "phine/locator=~1.0"

```

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

[](#documentation)

You can find the documentation in the [`docs/`](docs/) directory.

License
-------

[](#license)

This library is available under the [MIT license](LICENSE).

###  Health Score

25

—

LowBetter than 37% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity6

Limited adoption so far

Community6

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity59

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

Every ~0 days

Total

2

Last Release

4621d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/9122157?v=4)[Kevin Herrera](/maintainers/kherge)[@kherge](https://github.com/kherge)

---

Top Contributors

[![kherge](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/9122157?v=4)](https://github.com/kherge "kherge (29 commits)")

---

Tags

servicelocator

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