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phonetworks/pho-microkernel
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pho-microkernel
===============

[](#pho-microkernel)

Enhances Phở Framework with Services (such as persistence) and ACL (access-control-lists).

Existing services are:

- Database: provides persistence for objects created in the framework.
- Events: renders the platform extensible.
- Index: enables advanced search capabilities.
- Logger: dumps important debug info.
- Storage: provides binary storage.

While microkernel provides the interfaces to use for each service, the services are actually implemented by adapters that can be found at [pho-adapters](https://github.com/pho-adapters) Github repo.

microkernel [ACL](https://github.com/phonetworks/pho-microkernel/blob/master/src/Pho/Kernel/Acl/README.md)is heavily inspired by UNIX.

Install
-------

[](#install)

The recommended way to install pho-microkernel is through composer.

`composer require phonetworks/pho-microkernel`

Please note, pho-microkernel works with PHP 7.2+ only.

Tutorial
--------

[](#tutorial)

To get started with creating REST APIs using pho-microkernel, check out

License
-------

[](#license)

MIT, see [LICENSE](https://github.com/phonetworks/pho-microkernel/blob/master/LICENSE).

###  Health Score

36

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LowBetter than 79% of packages

Maintenance10

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity30

Limited adoption so far

Community16

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity74

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 87.7% 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.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~12 days

Recently: every ~51 days

Total

79

Last Release

2307d ago

Major Versions

0.9.1 → 1.0.02017-08-13

0.9.0 → 1.1.12017-08-13

1.12.4 → 2.0.02018-04-20

PHP version history (2 changes)1.0.1PHP ^7.1

2.6.5PHP ^7.2

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