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phodam/phodam
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A library to provide populated objects for testing

v2.0.0(6mo ago)753[1 issues](https://github.com/phodam-project/phodam/issues)MITPHPPHP ^8.4CI passing

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Phodam
======

[](#phodam)

Phodam is inspired by [PODAM](https://mtedone.github.io/podam/).

Phodam is a PHP library used to generate randomly populated objects for unit tests.

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

[](#documentation)

**New to Phodam?** Start with the [Quick Start Guide](docs/Quick%20Start%20Guide.md)

1. [Quick Start Guide](docs/Quick%20Start%20Guide.md) - Get started in minutes
2. [Initializing Phodam](docs/Initializing%20Phodam.md) - Setting up Phodam
3. [Automatic Type Analysis](docs/Automatic%20Type%20Analysis.md) - How Phodam automatically analyzes your classes
4. [Primitive Types](docs/Primitive%20Types.md) - Generating `int`, `float`, `string`, `bool`
5. [Built-in Types](docs/Builtin%20Types.md) - Working with `DateTime`, `DateTimeImmutable`, etc.
6. [Enum Types](docs/Enum%20Types.md) - Generating PHP 8 enum values
7. [Associative Arrays](docs/Associative%20Arrays.md) - Creating structured arrays
8. [Definition-based Type Providers](docs/Definition-based%20Type%20Providers.md) - Specifying field types
9. [Custom Type Providers](docs/Custom%20Type%20Providers.md) - Full control over object creation
10. [Named Providers](docs/Named%20Providers.md) - Multiple ways to generate the same type
11. [Breaking Circular References](docs/Breaking%20Circular%20References.md) - How to break Circular References with Providers

###  Health Score

40

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FairBetter than 86% of packages

Maintenance65

Regular maintenance activity

Popularity11

Limited adoption so far

Community12

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity61

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 85.6% 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 ~3 days

Recently: every ~9 days

Total

15

Last Release

190d ago

Major Versions

v1.0.0-rc.3 → v2.0.0-alpha.12025-12-31

PHP version history (2 changes)v1.0.0-alpha.1PHP ^7.4|^8.0

v2.0.0-alpha.1PHP ^8.4

### Community

Maintainers

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Top Contributors

[![avehlies](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/503806?v=4)](https://github.com/avehlies "avehlies (149 commits)")[![chrisbouchard](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/4512028?v=4)](https://github.com/chrisbouchard "chrisbouchard (21 commits)")[![steve-m-ny](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/13156811?v=4)](https://github.com/steve-m-ny "steve-m-ny (4 commits)")

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Tags

testingdata objectsunit-tests

###  Code Quality

TestsPHPUnit

Static AnalysisPHPStan

Code StylePHP CS Fixer

Type Coverage Yes

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