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tacit/tacit
===========

A library for RESTful RAD

0.6.1(8y ago)102903MITPHPPHP >=5.5CI failing

Since Feb 5Pushed 8y ago6 watchersCompare

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Tacit
=====

[](#tacit)

[![Build Status](https://camo.githubusercontent.com/42b2c4214386d045ebe32839acea02b52bd89a1f7d4f990eb7e48e99edcf4c78/68747470733a2f2f7472617669732d63692e6f72672f6f70656e6765656b2f74616369742e7376673f6272616e63683d6d6173746572)](https://travis-ci.org/opengeek/tacit)

Tacit is a high-performance REST server library for PHP 5.4+ built on the [Slim micro framework](http://www.slimframework.com/).

Features
--------

[](#features)

- A set of base RESTful controller classes supporting the HAL JSON format
    - RESTful item, collection, and error formats
    - Provides a set of RESTful exceptions for all common HTTP responses
    - Provides default RESTful behavior for persistent items/collections
    - Unit testable via Slim
- Allows custom authorization implementations with flexible integration points
- Extensible output transformers via [Fractal](https://github.com/thephpleague/fractal)
- A flexible persistence layer
    - Support for MongoDB provided via [Monga](https://github.com/thephpleague/monga)
    - Support for RethinkDB provided via [PHP-RQL](http://danielmewes.github.io/php-rql/)
    - Simple and extensible validation library tightly integrated

Install
-------

[](#install)

Via Composer

```
$ composer require tacit/tacit
```

System Requirements
-------------------

[](#system-requirements)

The following versions of PHP are supported by this version:

- PHP 5.4
- PHP 5.5
- PHP 5.6

Documentation
-------------

[](#documentation)

*TODO*

Testing
-------

[](#testing)

```
$ phpunit
```

Contributing
------------

[](#contributing)

Please see [CONTRIBUTING](./CONTRIBUTING.md) for details.

Credits
-------

[](#credits)

- [Jason Coward](https://github.com/opengeek/)
- [John Peca](https://github.com/TheBoxer/)
- [All Contributors](https://github.com/opengeek/tacit/graphs/contributors)

License
-------

[](#license)

The MIT License (MIT). Please see the [License file](./LICENSE) for more information.

###  Health Score

30

—

LowBetter than 64% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity20

Limited adoption so far

Community13

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity56

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 95.7% 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 ~97 days

Recently: every ~175 days

Total

12

Last Release

2948d ago

PHP version history (3 changes)v0.1.0PHP >=5.4

0.5.0PHP >=5.5

0.7.x-devPHP >=5.6

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/232812?v=4)[Jason Coward](/maintainers/opengeek)[@opengeek](https://github.com/opengeek)

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Top Contributors

[![opengeek](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/232812?v=4)](https://github.com/opengeek "opengeek (135 commits)")[![theboxer](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/845220?v=4)](https://github.com/theboxer "theboxer (6 commits)")

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Tags

rest

###  Code Quality

TestsPHPUnit

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