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urmaul/url
==========

Helper class to work with url strings.

v1.3.1(8y ago)02191MITPHPPHP >=5.3

Since Jun 6Pushed 8y agoCompare

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Url
===

[](#url)

Helper class to work with url strings.

[![Build Status](https://camo.githubusercontent.com/c777b3b3f9eac5cf2aae4afc162445bbb28017d81608040504775002085e57eb/68747470733a2f2f7472617669732d63692e6f72672f75726d61756c2f75726c2e737667)](https://travis-ci.org/urmaul/url)

Installing
----------

[](#installing)

`composer require urmaul/url dev-master`

Creating
--------

[](#creating)

```
use urmaul\url\Url;

$url = new Url('http://urmaul.com/');
// or
$url = Url::from('http://urmaul.com/');
```

Functions
---------

[](#functions)

- string **absolute($baseUrl)** - converts url from relative to absolute using base url.

```
echo Url::from('../html/')->absolute('http://urmaul.com/blog/tags/php/');
// http://urmaul.com/blog/tags/html/

echo Url::from('/blog/')->absolute('http://urmaul.com/blog/tags/php/');
// http://urmaul.com/blog/

echo Url::from('https://github.com/')->absolute('http://urmaul.com/blog/tags/php/');
// https://github.com/
```

- string **addParam($name, $value)** - adds get parameter to url.

```
echo Url::from('http://urmaul.com/')->addParam('foo', 'bar');
// http://urmaul.com/?foo=bar

echo Url::from('http://urmaul.com/?foo=bar')->addParam('spam', 'ham');
// http://urmaul.com/?foo=bar&spam=ham

echo Url::from('http://urmaul.com/?foo=bar')->addParam('foo', 'spam');
// http://urmaul.com/?foo=spam
```

- string **addParams($addParams)** - adds get parameters to url.

```
echo Url::from('http://urmaul.com/')->addParams(array('foo' => 'bar'));
// http://urmaul.com/?foo=bar

echo Url::from('http://urmaul.com/?foo=bar')->addParams(array('spam' => 'ham'));
// http://urmaul.com/?foo=bar&spam=ham

echo Url::from('http://urmaul.com/?foo=bar')->addParams(array('foo' => 'spam'));
// http://urmaul.com/?foo=spam
```

- string **removeParam($name, $value)** - removes get parameter from url.

```
echo Url::from('http://urmaul.com/?foo=bar')->removeParam('foo');
// http://urmaul.com/

echo Url::from('http://urmaul.com/?foo=bar&spam=ham')->removeParam('spam');
// http://urmaul.com/?spam=ham
```

- string **removeParams($removeParams)** - removes get parameters from url.

```
echo Url::from('http://urmaul.com/?foo=bar')->removeParams(array('foo', 'spam'));
// http://urmaul.com/

echo Url::from('http://urmaul.com/?foo=bar&spam=ham')->removeParams(array('foo', 'spam'));
// http://urmaul.com/

echo Url::from('http://urmaul.com/?foo=bar&foo=spam&ham=spam')->removeParams(array('foo', 'spam'));
// http://urmaul.com/?ham=spam
```

###  Health Score

28

—

LowBetter than 54% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity11

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 ~225 days

Recently: every ~272 days

Total

7

Last Release

3010d ago

### Community

Maintainers

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---

Top Contributors

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---

Tags

urlstring

###  Code Quality

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