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s-mcdonald/phpjson
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PHPJson: An elegant and simple JSON object serialization library for PHP.

2.1.0(9mo ago)1135↓30.2%[4 PRs](https://github.com/s-mcdonald/PHPJson/pulls)MITPHP ^8.2

Since Jan 1Compare

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###  Health Score

37

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LowBetter than 84% of packages

Maintenance56

Moderate activity, may be stable

Popularity16

Limited adoption so far

Community2

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity60

Established project with proven stability

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 ~9 days

Recently: every ~36 days

Total

17

Last Release

295d ago

Major Versions

0.4.5 → 1.0.02025-01-11

1.0.0 → 2.0.02025-05-31

PHP version history (2 changes)0.0.3PHP &gt;=8.2

0.4.1PHP ^8.2

### Community

Maintainers

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Tags

jsonserializerhydrationjson-phpphp-jsonphp-json-libraryjson-hydration

###  Code Quality

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