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samburns/dirty-needle
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Dependency Injection container for PHP

3.0.3(11y ago)292MITPHP >= 5.4.0

Since Mar 8Compare

[ Source](https://github.com/Sam-Burns/dirty-needle)[ Packagist](https://packagist.org/packages/samburns/dirty-needle)[ RSS](/packages/samburns-dirty-needle/feed)WikiDiscussions Synced 1mo ago

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###  Health Score

29

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LowBetter than 60% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity12

Limited adoption so far

Community6

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity65

Established project with proven stability

 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

Every ~1 days

Total

11

Last Release

4075d ago

Major Versions

1.1.0 → 2.1.02015-03-08

0.1.0 → 1.2.02015-03-10

0.2.0 → 2.2.02015-03-10

0.2.1 → 1.2.12015-03-11

1.2.1 → 3.0.02015-03-15

PHP version history (3 changes)1.1.0PHP >= 5.4.0

2.1.0PHP >= 5.6.0

0.1.0PHP >= 5.3.0

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/9dc0c2d8bba727c2b30227f0e9eb327906ae55f4673bb48df1c846365e58d526?d=identicon)[Sam-Burns](/maintainers/Sam-Burns)

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Top Contributors

[![Sam-Burns](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/6594039?v=4)](https://github.com/Sam-Burns "Sam-Burns (72 commits)")

###  Code Quality

TestsPHPUnit

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