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php-packages/container
======================

An IoC container for PHP: simple, fast, clean.

1.2.0(11y ago)04781MITPHP

Since Feb 2Pushed 11y agoCompare

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[](#container-)

An IoC container for PHP: simple, fast, clean.

### Features

[](#features)

- injecting via type-hinting
- injecting via property annotations
- manual dependencies injecting via an array

Navigation
----------

[](#navigation)

- [Installation](#installation)
- [Usage](#usage)
- [Development](#development)
- [Additional information](#additional-information)

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

[](#installation)

```
composer require php-packages/container
```

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

### mixed make(string|mixed $class, array $dependencies = \[\])

[](#mixed-makestringmixed-class-array-dependencies--)

```
class A
{
}

get_class(container()->make("A")); # => "A"
get_class(container()->make(new A)); # => "A"

class B
{

    public function __construct(array $foo = [], A $bar)
    {
        var_dump($foo); # => []
        get_class($bar); # => "A"
    }
}

container()->make("B");

class C
{

    public function __construct(array $foo)
    {
        var_dump($foo); # => [1, 2, "C"]
    }
}

container()->make("C", [[1, 2, raw("C")]]);
```

### object inject(object $instance)

[](#object-injectobject-instance)

The `inject` method be always called inside of `make`.

```
class C
{
}

class A
{

    /**
     * @shouldBeInjected
     * @var C
     */
    public $b;
}

get_class(container()->inject(new A)->b); # => "C"
```

### void bind(string $binding, string|object $value)

[](#void-bindstring-binding-stringobject-value)

```
container()->bind("foo", "stdClass");
container()->bind("bar", $bar = new stdClass);

var_dump(container()->make("foo")); # => an instance of stdClass
var_dump(container()->make("bar") === container()->make("bar")); # => true
```

Development
-----------

[](#development)

```
make run-tests
make coverage-report coverage-report-server
```

Additional information
----------------------

[](#additional-information)

*Container* is released under the MIT license.

###  Health Score

30

—

LowBetter than 64% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity14

Limited adoption so far

Community8

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity66

Established project with proven stability

 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 ~5 days

Total

4

Last Release

4106d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/270a6b451bb75c99beae25836d16453daf58531cfac6baecd8d0a72059baa44b?d=identicon)[bound1ess](/maintainers/bound1ess)

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Top Contributors

[![bound1ess](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/10074992?v=4)](https://github.com/bound1ess "bound1ess (58 commits)")

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Tags

containerdependency-injectioniocinversion of control

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