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PHPOffice Common

1.0.5(1y ago)23512.3M—1%56[6 issues](https://github.com/PHPOffice/Common/issues)[1 PRs](https://github.com/PHPOffice/Common/pulls)20LGPL-3.0-onlyPHPPHP >=7.1CI passing

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PHPOffice Common is a library written in pure PHP that provides a set of components for PHPOffice librairies.

PHPOffice Common is an open source project licensed under the terms of [LGPL version 3](https://github.com/PHPOffice/Common/blob/develop/COPYING.LESSER). PHPOffice Common is aimed to be a high quality software product by incorporating [continuous integration](https://travis-ci.org/PHPOffice/Common) and [unit testing](http://phpoffice.github.io/Common/coverage/develop/). You can learn more about PHPPowerPoint by reading the [API Documentation](http://phpoffice.github.io/Common/docs/develop/).

Read more about PHPOffice Common:

- [Requirements](#requirements)
- [Contributing](#contributing)
- [API Documentation](http://phpoffice.github.io/Common/docs/master/)

### Requirements

[](#requirements)

PHPOffice Common requires the following:

- PHP 7.1+

Contributing
------------

[](#contributing)

We welcome everyone to contribute to PHPOffice Common. Below are some of the things that you can do to contribute:

- Read [our contributing guide](https://github.com/PHPOffice/Common/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md)
- [Fork us](https://github.com/PHPOffice/Common/fork) and [request a pull](https://github.com/PHPOffice/Common/pulls) to the [develop](https://github.com/PHPOffice/Common/tree/develop) branch
- Submit [bug reports or feature requests](https://github.com/PHPOffice/Common/issues) to GitHub
- Follow [@PHPOffice](https://twitter.com/PHPOffice) on Twitter

###  Health Score

63

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FairBetter than 99% of packages

Maintenance70

Regular maintenance activity

Popularity65

Solid adoption and visibility

Community39

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity67

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 68.1% 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 ~221 days

Recently: every ~276 days

Total

17

Last Release

445d ago

Major Versions

0.2.9 → 1.0.02021-09-09

PHP version history (2 changes)0.1PHP >=5.3.0

1.0.0PHP >=7.1

### Community

Maintainers

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Top Contributors

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Tags

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###  Code Quality

TestsPHPUnit

Static AnalysisPHPStan

Type Coverage Yes

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