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tasoft/key-value-coding
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PHP library to enable key-value coding for your objects.

1.1(9y ago)09MITPHPPHP ^5.3.3 || ^7.0

Since Mar 7Pushed 8y agoCompare

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Key Value Coding
================

[](#key-value-coding)

PHP Library to implement key-value coding This library defined 3 interfaces to enable key-value coding, key-value changing and key-value observing. Key-value coding is known as accessing properties, such as attributes or relationships of an object via keys. The key-value-coding library ships with 2 traits that implement the coding and changing interfaces.

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

Every object that has methods named get\* and set\* can be used for key-value coding. The Object\\CodingTrait implements the default mechanism which has the following workflow:
Getting a key:

```
echo $object->userName;

```

will do:

```
$object->__get("userName");
$object->valueForKey("userName");
$object->getDefinedKeys();
// If key does exist
$object->getUserName();
// If key does not exist
$object->valueForUndefinedKey("userName");

```

and the same for

```
$object->userName = "tasoft";

```

but using the \_\_set, setValueForKey, setUserName or setValueForUndefinedKey instead.

### Key Paths

[](#key-paths)

Keypaths are defined as identifier to trace objects by its relationships. For example, an address object contains an attribute named country and a user contains a relationship to an address object, you can access the country attribute by using

```
echo $user->valueForKeyPath("address.country");
// or
echo $user["address.country"];

```

###  Health Score

25

—

LowBetter than 37% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity4

Limited adoption so far

Community6

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity59

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

Every ~0 days

Total

2

Last Release

3355d ago

### Community

Maintainers

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Top Contributors

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Tags

tracingkeycodingvalue

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