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ut4/pike
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A low-level application toolkit.

0.10.0(4y ago)1240Apache-2.0PHPPHP >=7.3 <9.0CI failing

Since Jan 26Pushed 1y ago1 watchersCompare

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Pike
====

[](#pike)

[![Pike logo](https://camo.githubusercontent.com/31f13779c03f2bebcf47b10c5c33cb7e68d4009be691587f1c487e54507b80e9/68747470733a2f2f7574342e6769746875622e696f2f696d672f70696b652d6c6f676f2e706e67)](https://camo.githubusercontent.com/31f13779c03f2bebcf47b10c5c33cb7e68d4009be691587f1c487e54507b80e9/68747470733a2f2f7574342e6769746875622e696f2f696d672f70696b652d6c6f676f2e706e67)

Low-level toolkit for depeloping fast and testable php applications. A mixture of php's own APIs (pdo, sessions), existing libraries (routing, di), and self-rolled stuff (auth, data validation).

Dependencies
============

[](#dependencies)

- PHP >=7.3
- [altorouter/altorouter ^1.2](https://github.com/dannyvankooten/AltoRouter)
- [rdlowrey/auryn ^1.4](https://github.com/rdlowrey/auryn) (Dependency injection)

Optional dependencies
=====================

[](#optional-dependencies)

- [phpmailer/phpmailer ^6.1](https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer) (Auth\\AccountManager)
- [masterminds/html5 ^2.7](https://github.com/Masterminds/html5-php) (Extensions\\SafeHTMLValidator)

Documentation
=============

[](#documentation)

[Suomeksi](https://ut4.github.io/pike/index.html).

License
=======

[](#license)

Apache 2.0

###  Health Score

34

—

LowBetter than 77% of packages

Maintenance28

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity13

Limited adoption so far

Community7

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity73

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 ~43 days

Recently: every ~106 days

Total

16

Last Release

1646d ago

PHP version history (3 changes)v0.0.0PHP ~7.1

0.4.0PHP ^7.2

0.10.0PHP >=7.3 <9.0

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/4862319?v=4)[ut4](/maintainers/ut4)[@ut4](https://github.com/ut4)

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Top Contributors

[![ut4](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/4862319?v=4)](https://github.com/ut4 "ut4 (105 commits)")

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Tags

application-frameworkautowiredbloat-freedependency-injection

###  Code Quality

TestsPHPUnit

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