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railken/nikic-php-parser-v4
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A PHP parser written in PHP

v4.0.1(8y ago)02.6kBSD-3-ClausePHP &gt;=7.0

Since Jan 5Compare

[ Source](https://github.com/railken/PHP-Parser)[ Packagist](https://packagist.org/packages/railken/nikic-php-parser-v4)[ RSS](/packages/railken-nikic-php-parser-v4/feed)WikiDiscussions Synced 2mo ago

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The README for this package hasn't been synced yet. View it on [GitHub](https://github.com/railken/PHP-Parser).

###  Health Score

34

—

LowBetter than 77% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity16

Limited adoption so far

Community19

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity71

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 90.9% 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 ~46 days

Recently: every ~13 days

Total

50

Last Release

2979d ago

Major Versions

v3.1.1 → v4.0.0alpha12017-10-18

v3.1.2 → v4.0.0alpha22017-11-10

v3.1.3 → v4.0.0alpha32017-12-26

v3.1.4 → v4.0.0beta12018-01-27

v3.1.5 → v4.0.02018-02-28

PHP version history (5 changes)v0.9.0PHP &gt;=5.2

v1.0.0beta1PHP &gt;=5.3

v2.0.0alpha1PHP &gt;=5.4

v3.0.0alpha1PHP &gt;=5.5

v4.0.0alpha1PHP &gt;=7.0

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/ea4a9e56b247008aea4d20bb8a555a9f0cb69d0ac69aa8417b29fc37efa2eb5c?d=identicon)[railken](/maintainers/railken)

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Top Contributors

[![nikic](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/216080?v=4)](https://github.com/nikic "nikic (897 commits)")[![carusogabriel](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/16328050?v=4)](https://github.com/carusogabriel "carusogabriel (21 commits)")[![TomasVotruba](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/924196?v=4)](https://github.com/TomasVotruba "TomasVotruba (9 commits)")[![muglug](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/2292638?v=4)](https://github.com/muglug "muglug (7 commits)")[![schmittjoh](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/197017?v=4)](https://github.com/schmittjoh "schmittjoh (5 commits)")[![GrahamCampbell](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/2829600?v=4)](https://github.com/GrahamCampbell "GrahamCampbell (5 commits)")[![lisachenko](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/640114?v=4)](https://github.com/lisachenko "lisachenko (4 commits)")[![railken](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/26530231?v=4)](https://github.com/railken "railken (4 commits)")[![jesseschalken](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1559204?v=4)](https://github.com/jesseschalken "jesseschalken (3 commits)")[![hason](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/288535?v=4)](https://github.com/hason "hason (3 commits)")[![ovr](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/572096?v=4)](https://github.com/ovr "ovr (3 commits)")[![algo13](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/8383815?v=4)](https://github.com/algo13 "algo13 (2 commits)")[![kix](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/345754?v=4)](https://github.com/kix "kix (2 commits)")[![maks-rafalko](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/3725595?v=4)](https://github.com/maks-rafalko "maks-rafalko (2 commits)")[![remicollet](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/270445?v=4)](https://github.com/remicollet "remicollet (2 commits)")[![theofidry](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/5175937?v=4)](https://github.com/theofidry "theofidry (2 commits)")[![theseer](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/111333?v=4)](https://github.com/theseer "theseer (2 commits)")[![Wes1262](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/4203089?v=4)](https://github.com/Wes1262 "Wes1262 (2 commits)")[![rmruano](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1115642?v=4)](https://github.com/rmruano "rmruano (1 commits)")[![romainneutron](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/137574?v=4)](https://github.com/romainneutron "romainneutron (1 commits)")

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Tags

phpparser

###  Code Quality

TestsPHPUnit

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