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sun/alien
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Alien helps you to create alias for your class namespace. Its also injected all the dependencies of your class.

v1.7(10y ago)257MITPHPPHP >=5.4.0

Since Jul 13Pushed 10y ago2 watchersCompare

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Alien
-----

[](#alien)

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Alien helps you to create alias for your class namespace. Its also injected all the dependencies of your class.

Installation Process
--------------------

[](#installation-process)

Just copy Alien folder somewhere into your project directory. Then include Alien autoloader.

```
 require_once('/path/to/Alien/autoload.php');
```

Alien is also available via Composer/Packagist.

```
 composer require sun/alien

```

You need to call Alien load method to initialize everything.

```
 Sun\AlienLoader::load();
```

Configuration
-------------

[](#configuration)

If you install Alien manually just open config.php file located at Alien/config.php.

If you install Alien via composer you need to publish Alien configuration file. Run this command in your terminal to publish alien configuration file.

```
 Php vendor/sun/alien/publish

```

Then, open alien.php file located at config/alien.php.

Added your alias and namespace. Like as..

```
 return [
     'File' => 'Sun\FilesystemAlien',
     'Mail'	=> 'SunMailer\MailerAlien',
     'View'	=> 'SunMailer\ViewAlien'

 ];
```

Creating Alien
--------------

[](#creating-alien)

You can create Alien by extending Alien class. Here an example -

```
namespace Sun;

class FilesystemAlien extends \Sun\Alien
{

    /**
     * To register Alien
     *
     * @return string namespace
     */
    public static function registerAlien()
    {
        return 'Sun\Filesystem';
    }
}
```

Now you can use any method of your class static way ( without creating object of your class ).

###### Example:

[](#example)

Let, Filesystem class has a method create(). Calling create method of Filesystem class -

```
$filesystem = new Sun\Filesystem;
$filesystem->create();
```

Using Alien Now, you can also call create method by this way -

```
File::create();
```

Testing Alien
-------------

[](#testing-alien)

You can test your alien class, here an example

```
$mocked = File::shouldReceive('create')
                ->once()
                ->andReturn('mocked');

$this->assertEquals('mocked', $mocked); // true
```

Don't forget to call close method of the mockery class. Here an example for the PHPUnit testing framework

```
public function tearDown()
{
    Mockery::close();
}
```

License
-------

[](#license)

This package is licensed under the [MIT License](https://github.com/IftekherSunny/Alien/blob/master/LICENSE)

###  Health Score

28

—

LowBetter than 54% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity11

Limited adoption so far

Community8

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity63

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 ~9 days

Total

8

Last Release

3896d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7d233b865d7b1e1b86271e3bc70ddd077e1c01e4a83124e020fa39199c4af15a?d=identicon)[IftekherSunny](/maintainers/IftekherSunny)

---

Top Contributors

[![IftekherSunny](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/8013399?v=4)](https://github.com/IftekherSunny "IftekherSunny (14 commits)")

---

Tags

aliasAlienfacadeslaravel like facadesphp alias

###  Code Quality

TestsPHPUnit

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```

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