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sledgehammer/core
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Sledgehammer - A general purpose PHP toolkit

26.03.0(2mo ago)32.2k11MITPHP >=7.3

Since Oct 12Compare

[ Source](https://github.com/sledgehammer/core)[ Packagist](https://packagist.org/packages/sledgehammer/core)[ Docs](http://sledgehammer.github.com/)[ RSS](/packages/sledgehammer-core/feed)WikiDiscussions Synced 1mo ago

READMEChangelogDependencies (2)Versions (49)Used By (11)

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###  Health Score

52

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FairBetter than 96% of packages

Maintenance87

Actively maintained with recent releases

Popularity21

Limited adoption so far

Community17

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity71

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 99.8% 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 ~106 days

Recently: every ~721 days

Total

47

Last Release

62d ago

Major Versions

15.08.0 → 16.05.02016-04-19

16.11.0 → 18.04.02018-04-25

18.08.0 → 20.01.02021-01-16

20.01.0 → 22.07.02022-07-23

22.07.0 → 26.03.02026-03-17

PHP version history (5 changes)12.10.1PHP >=5.3.0

16.05.0PHP >=5.5

18.04.0PHP >=7.1

20.01.0PHP >=7.4

22.07.0PHP >=7.3

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/207248?v=4)[Bob Fanger](/maintainers/bfanger)[@bfanger](https://github.com/bfanger)

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Top Contributors

[![bfanger](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/207248?v=4)](https://github.com/bfanger "bfanger (433 commits)")[![Hyra](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/380836?v=4)](https://github.com/Hyra "Hyra (1 commits)")

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Tags

coretoolkitsledgehammer

###  Code Quality

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