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uestla/aliaser
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Simple PHP library for parsing and handling class aliases defined by USE statements.

1.1.0(12y ago)3606MITPHPPHP >=5.3.0

Since Jun 30Pushed 11y ago2 watchersCompare

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Aliaser
=======

[](#aliaser)

Simple PHP library for parsing and handling class and function aliases defined by `USE` statements.

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

**Book.php**

Here we have an entity class `Book` with some annotations:

```
namespace Model\Entities;

use \DateTime;

/**
 * @property User $author
 * @property DateTime $written
 */
class Book
{}

function foo()
{}
```

**foo.php**

And now let's say we would like to take those annotations and get the full class name of those `@property` types defined. And that's where we'll use `Aliaser`:

```
$reflection = new ReflectionClass('Model\Entities\Book');

Aliaser\Container::getClass('User', $reflection); // 'Model\Entities\User'
Aliaser\Container::getClass('DateTime', $reflection); // 'DateTime'
```

We can discover full function/callback name according to given namespace context as well.

```
Aliaser\Container::getCallback('DateTime::format', $reflection); // 'DateTime::format'
Aliaser\Container::getCallback('User::getName', $reflection); // 'Model\Entities\User::getName'

Aliaser\Container::getCallback('foo', $reflection); // 'Model\Entities\foo'
```

It handles multiple namespace definitions in a single file as well.

However, parsing can be quite expensive - we can use a [Nette Framework](http://doc.nette.org/en/caching) Cache:

```
$storage = new Nette\Caching\Storages\FileStorage(__DIR__ . '/temp');
Aliaser\Container::setCacheStorage($storage);

// ...
```

Enjoy.

###  Health Score

30

—

LowBetter than 64% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity16

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 ~7 days

Total

7

Last Release

4650d ago

### Community

Maintainers

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Top Contributors

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