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phpmentors/workflower
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A BPMN 2.0 workflow engine for PHP

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Workflower
==========

[](#workflower)

A BPMN 2.0 workflow engine for PHP

`Workflower` is a BPMN 2.0 workflow engine for PHP. `Workflower` runs business processes using [the BPMN 2.0 specification](http://www.omg.org/spec/BPMN/2.0/). It's open-source and distributed under [the BSD 2-Clause License](http://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-2-Clause).

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Features
--------

[](#features)

- Workflow
    - The workflow engine and domain model
- Process
    - Some interfaces to work with `ProcessInstance` objects
- Definition
    - `ProcessDefinitionRepository` to store all process definitions
    - BPMN 2.0 process definitions importer
- Persistence
    - Serialize/deserialize interfaces for `ProcessInstance` objects

### Supported workflow elements

[](#supported-workflow-elements)

- Connecting objects
    - Sequence flows
- Flow objects
    - Activities
        - Tasks
        - Service tasks
        - Send tasks
        - User tasks
        - Manual tasks
        - CallActivity tasks
        - SubProcess tasks
    - Events
        - Start events
        - End events
        - TerminateEnd events
    - Gateways
        - Exclusive gateways
        - Inclusive gateways
        - Parallel gateways
- Swimlanes
    - Lanes

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

[](#installation)

`Workflower` can be installed using [Composer](http://getcomposer.org/).

Add the dependency to `phpmentors/workflower` into your `composer.json` file as the following:

**Stable version:**

```
composer require phpmentors/workflower "1.4.*"

```

**Development version:**

```
composer require phpmentors/workflower "~2.0@dev"

```

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

[](#documentation)

- [Quick Start Guide](https://github.com/phpmentors-jp/workflower/blob/master/docs/quick-start-guide.md)
- [Release Notes](https://github.com/phpmentors-jp/workflower/releases)

Support
-------

[](#support)

If you find a bug or have a question, or want to request a feature, create an issue or pull request for it on [Issues](https://github.com/phpmentors-jp/workflower/issues).

Copyright
---------

[](#copyright)

Copyright (c) 2015-2019 Atsuhiro Kubo and [contributors](https://github.com/phpmentors-jp/workflower/wiki/Contributors), All rights reserved.

License
-------

[](#license)

[The BSD 2-Clause License](http://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-2-Clause)

###  Health Score

44

—

FairBetter than 92% of packages

Maintenance19

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity53

Moderate usage in the ecosystem

Community31

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity63

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 93.1% 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 ~286 days

Recently: every ~351 days

Total

8

Last Release

1950d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/52985?v=4)[Atsuhiro Kubo](/maintainers/iteman)[@iteman](https://github.com/iteman)

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Top Contributors

[![iteman](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/52985?v=4)](https://github.com/iteman "iteman (298 commits)")[![ateodorescu](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1575894?v=4)](https://github.com/ateodorescu "ateodorescu (15 commits)")[![SirWaddles](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/769399?v=4)](https://github.com/SirWaddles "SirWaddles (5 commits)")[![77web](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/296615?v=4)](https://github.com/77web "77web (2 commits)")

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Tags

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###  Code Quality

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