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PHP API for WordNet (https://wordnet.princeton.edu/)

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PHP API for WordNet database
============================

[](#php-api-for-wordnet-database)

[WordNet database](https://wordnet.princeton.edu/) provides kind of semantic of words stored in files. This project is PHP API for easy reading of these files. See [examples/wordNet.php](examples/wordNet.php).

Getting Started
---------------

[](#getting-started)

### Prerequisites

[](#prerequisites)

The code needs PHP 8.1 or greater.

### Installing

[](#installing)

```
composer require phpwndb/phpwndb

```

### Basic usage

[](#basic-usage)

```
$wordNet = (new PhpWndb\Dataset\WordNetProvider())->getWordNet();
$synsets = $wordNet->search('word');

foreach ($synsets as $synset) {
    echo $synset->getGloss() . "\n";
}
```

Running the tests
-----------------

[](#running-the-tests)

```
composer install
composer phpstan
composer tests

```

Versioning
----------

[](#versioning)

We use [SemVer](http://semver.org/) for versioning. For the versions available, see the [tags on this repository](https://github.com/PhpWndb/PhpWndb/tags).

###  Health Score

21

—

LowBetter than 18% of packages

Maintenance0

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity23

Limited adoption so far

Community7

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity44

Maturing project, gaining track record

 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

Unknown

Total

1

Last Release

1212d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/522c1e914070f24fde66cc146ee87e915588242852cbe379e0a9bf21537dc6af?d=identicon)[AdamLutka](/maintainers/AdamLutka)

---

Top Contributors

[![AdamLutka](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/38178278?v=4)](https://github.com/AdamLutka "AdamLutka (10 commits)")

---

Tags

wordnetsynset

###  Code Quality

TestsPHPUnit

Static AnalysisPHPStan

Type Coverage Yes

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