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programster/core-libs
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Core libraries for PHP 7.0+

2.6.4(2mo ago)04.4k↓30%11MITPHPPHP >=8.5.0

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Core Libs
=========

[](#core-libs)

This is a PHP package providing a set of static libraries that act to "extend" the standard library. These are built primarily with a focus on rapid development and ease of understanding over performance.

### Recommended Extensions

[](#recommended-extensions)

This package recommends various extensions such as mbstring in order to be able to perform some of the provided methods. However, we did not wish to prevent this from allowing you to install the package in case you did not need to use these limited methods. Thus, such methods will raise the an `ExceptionMissingExtension` with details of which extension, if you try to execute a method, without having the recommended extension installed.

###  Health Score

60

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FairBetter than 99% of packages

Maintenance85

Actively maintained with recent releases

Popularity22

Limited adoption so far

Community22

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity97

Battle-tested with a long release history

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 89.6% 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 ~41 days

Recently: every ~5 days

Total

96

Last Release

77d ago

Major Versions

1.7.10 → 2.0.02021-02-05

PHP version history (8 changes)1.0.0PHP >=5.3.0

1.0.1PHP >=5.5.0

1.1.30PHP >=7.0.0

1.6.0PHP >=7.2.0

2.0.0PHP >=7.4.0

2.2.0PHP >=8.2.0

2.3.2PHP >=8.3.0

2.6.0PHP >=8.5.0

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/64a048ca8be761aced9419279975a21ef679b71c70d8263bc2fc413a87ad381c?d=identicon)[programster](/maintainers/programster)

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Top Contributors

[![programster](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/5709838?v=4)](https://github.com/programster "programster (121 commits)")[![Rockburner](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/29091278?v=4)](https://github.com/Rockburner "Rockburner (7 commits)")[![annie917](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/37503494?v=4)](https://github.com/annie917 "annie917 (3 commits)")[![samrat-rai](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/45970131?v=4)](https://github.com/samrat-rai "samrat-rai (2 commits)")[![iRAP-Stu](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/115175332?v=4)](https://github.com/iRAP-Stu "iRAP-Stu (1 commits)")[![markrgloverirap](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/22938343?v=4)](https://github.com/markrgloverirap "markrgloverirap (1 commits)")

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