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primal/authentication
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User authentication and login session management toolkit

11PHP

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\#Primal Authentication

Created and Copyright 2012 by Jarvis Badgley, chiper at chipersoft dot com.

Primal Authentication is a rudimentary user authentication and session based user login system built to be extendable for any website's needs.

The Visitor class requires Primal Session as its only dependency.

Other included classes are built for use with Primal Database.

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Documentation forthcoming

###  Health Score

19

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LowBetter than 10% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity3

Limited adoption so far

Community7

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity41

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.

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/31834882?v=4)[ChiperSoft](/maintainers/ChiperSoft)[@ChiperSoft](https://github.com/ChiperSoft)

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Top Contributors

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