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unikent/lib-php-kar
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KAR API for PHP.

3.0.2(10y ago)01.8kGPL-2.0+PHPPHP >=5.3

Since Dec 9Pushed 9y ago13 watchersCompare

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lib-php-kar
===========

[](#lib-php-kar)

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Full API docs available here:

PHP library for helping developers with KAR integrations

Add this to your composer require:

- "unikent/lib-php-kar": "dev-master"

Then get lists like so:

```
$api = new \unikent\KAR\API('https://kar-test.kent.ac.uk');
$documents = $api->search_author("person@kent.ac.uk");
foreach ($documents as $document) {
    echo "---------------------------------\n";
    echo $document;
}

```

###  Health Score

32

—

LowBetter than 69% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity15

Limited adoption so far

Community16

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity67

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 73.5% 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 ~31 days

Recently: every ~108 days

Total

18

Last Release

3691d ago

Major Versions

1.1 → 2.02015-02-04

2.4.4 → 3.0.02015-09-28

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/4242976?v=4)[Skylar Kelty](/maintainers/sk-unikent)[@sk-unikent](https://github.com/sk-unikent)

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Top Contributors

[![sk-unikent](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/4242976?v=4)](https://github.com/sk-unikent "sk-unikent (97 commits)")[![thybag](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/887397?v=4)](https://github.com/thybag "thybag (15 commits)")[![SkylarKelty](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/5101668?v=4)](https://github.com/SkylarKelty "SkylarKelty (10 commits)")[![gjmh-unikent](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/9929369?v=4)](https://github.com/gjmh-unikent "gjmh-unikent (7 commits)")[![jna-unikent](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/4138097?v=4)](https://github.com/jna-unikent "jna-unikent (3 commits)")

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Tags

apilibrarykar

###  Code Quality

TestsPHPUnit

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