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tomkyle/string-utils
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Various Helper classes. Quite useful sometimes

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\#tomykle/String-Utils

Some PHP utility classes, extracted from my melting monolith codebase.

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\##Contents

- Interface `StringProvider`
- Class `RandomString`
- Class `StopWatch`
- Class `TextInterpolation`
- Class `Entropy`

\##Testing

Simply issue `phpunit` to run the test suites; you may have to `composer update`first.

###  Health Score

25

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LowBetter than 37% of packages

Maintenance0

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity11

Limited adoption so far

Community10

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity66

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 98.1% 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.

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###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~4 days

Total

15

Last Release

4389d ago

### Community

Maintainers

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