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solidworx/burial
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Bury dead code in a project

0.1.0(6y ago)127MITPHPPHP >= 7.1

Since Jul 18Pushed 6y ago2 watchersCompare

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Burial
======

[](#burial)

Bury dead code in a project using [Tombs](https://github.com/krakjoe/tombs)

Installation:
-------------

[](#installation)

### Phar

[](#phar)

Download the latest Phar from

### Composer

[](#composer)

Install into a project (or globally) using Composer

```
$ composer require solidworx/burial

# or

$ composer global require solidworx/burial
```

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

You should already have [Tombs](https://github.com/krakjoe/tombs) running on an environment and communicating through a socket.

**NOTE:** You should let Tombs run for at lease a couple of days/weeks, to ensure as much production code is hit as possible.

Run Burial against your code base, providing the Tombs socket as first argument

```
$ bin/bury http://127.0.0.1:8015

# or

$ php bury.phar http://127.0.0.1:8015
```

This will then remove all the dead code from your project (defaults to the directory where Burial is executed from).

### Options

[](#options)

Burial takes the following parameters

NameDefaultDescriptionExample--production-pathCurrent Working DirectorySet the path of the code on production. This is used to map the production code against your local code.`$ bin/bury http://127.0.0.1:8015 --production-path=/var/www/html/myapp`--ignore-dirNULLAdd multiple directories to ignore (`vendor` is always ignored by default)`$ bin/bury http://127.0.0.1:8015 --ignore-dir=var/cache  --ignore-dir=app`Important
---------

[](#important)

**DO NOT** run this directly in your production environment. It will remove code that might still be used. You should only run this on your local machine or a test environment, where you can carefully verify the changes, run unit tests and do proper testing to ensure that nothing is broken.

TODO
----

[](#todo)

- Ensure a method is not required from a trait/parent class's interface, extended class etc
- Handle calls without a scope (E.G closures)
- Remove dead functions (only method calls are currently supported)
- Add tests

###  Health Score

22

—

LowBetter than 22% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity11

Limited adoption so far

Community8

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity43

Maturing project, gaining track record

 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

Unknown

Total

1

Last Release

2492d ago

### Community

Maintainers

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Top Contributors

[![pierredup](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/144858?v=4)](https://github.com/pierredup "pierredup (3 commits)")

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Tags

dead-codedead-code-eliminationdead-code-removalphptombs

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