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zendframework/zend-expressive-hal
=================================

Hypertext Application Language implementation for PHP and PSR-7

1.3.1(7y ago)37198.5k↓36%20[3 issues](https://github.com/zendframework/zend-expressive-hal/issues)[2 PRs](https://github.com/zendframework/zend-expressive-hal/pulls)BSD-3-ClausePHPPHP ^7.1

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Hypertext Application Language (HAL) for PSR-7 Applications
===========================================================

[](#hypertext-application-language-hal-for-psr-7-applications)

> ## Repository abandoned 2019-12-31
>
> [](#repository-abandoned-2019-12-31)
>
> This repository has moved to [mezzio/mezzio-hal](https://github.com/mezzio/mezzio-hal).

[![Build Status](https://camo.githubusercontent.com/ca9c7132f958cb69ff9b0d4e414d833fe15a6418f665a1373ccde72aeee7240f/68747470733a2f2f7365637572652e7472617669732d63692e6f72672f7a656e646672616d65776f726b2f7a656e642d657870726573736976652d68616c2e7376673f6272616e63683d6d6173746572)](https://secure.travis-ci.org/zendframework/zend-expressive-hal)[![Coverage Status](https://camo.githubusercontent.com/4f8e6e92df86cb5d5a5ad7bb2b8549bd67b7051e163c03407eb94e132310a04b/68747470733a2f2f636f766572616c6c732e696f2f7265706f732f6769746875622f7a656e646672616d65776f726b2f7a656e642d657870726573736976652d68616c2f62616467652e7376673f6272616e63683d6d6173746572)](https://coveralls.io/github/zendframework/zend-expressive-hal?branch=master)

This library provides utilities for modeling HAL resources with links and generating [PSR-7](http://www.php-fig.org/psr/psr-7/) responses representing both JSON and XML serializations of them.

Installation
------------

[](#installation)

Run the following to install this library:

```
$ composer require zendframework/zend-expressive-hal
```

Documentation
-------------

[](#documentation)

Documentation is [in the doc tree](docs/book/), and can be compiled using [mkdocs](http://www.mkdocs.org):

```
$ mkdocs build
```

You may also [browse the documentation online](https://docs.zendframework.com/zend-expressive-hal/).

###  Health Score

42

—

FairBetter than 90% of packages

Maintenance18

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity45

Moderate usage in the ecosystem

Community25

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity67

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 77.6% 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 ~30 days

Recently: every ~62 days

Total

19

Last Release

2653d ago

Major Versions

0.6.2 → 1.0.0alpha12018-02-27

0.6.3 → 1.0.02018-03-15

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/296074?v=4)[Zend Framework](/maintainers/zendframework)[@zendframework](https://github.com/zendframework)

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Top Contributors

[![weierophinney](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/25943?v=4)](https://github.com/weierophinney "weierophinney (235 commits)")[![michalbundyra](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/7423207?v=4)](https://github.com/michalbundyra "michalbundyra (27 commits)")[![MatthiasKuehneEllerhold](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/19988979?v=4)](https://github.com/MatthiasKuehneEllerhold "MatthiasKuehneEllerhold (18 commits)")[![Lansoweb](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/2109813?v=4)](https://github.com/Lansoweb "Lansoweb (7 commits)")[![alextech](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/3820828?v=4)](https://github.com/alextech "alextech (3 commits)")[![geerteltink](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/9497586?v=4)](https://github.com/geerteltink "geerteltink (3 commits)")[![marcguyer](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/35496?v=4)](https://github.com/marcguyer "marcguyer (2 commits)")[![MaSpeng](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/18685557?v=4)](https://github.com/MaSpeng "MaSpeng (2 commits)")[![internalsystemerror](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1626298?v=4)](https://github.com/internalsystemerror "internalsystemerror (2 commits)")[![grizzm0](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/2905853?v=4)](https://github.com/grizzm0 "grizzm0 (1 commits)")[![sasezaki](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/42755?v=4)](https://github.com/sasezaki "sasezaki (1 commits)")[![sunspikes](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/75611?v=4)](https://github.com/sunspikes "sunspikes (1 commits)")[![ezimuel](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/475967?v=4)](https://github.com/ezimuel "ezimuel (1 commits)")

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Tags

apiexpressivehalpsr-11psr-13psr-7restzendframeworkzfhttppsrpsr-7PSR-11restpsr-13halZendFrameworkzfexpressivezend-expressive

###  Code Quality

TestsPHPUnit

### Embed Badge

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```

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