How to Use PHP to Compute a GitHub Score for the Participation of a Developer - Github PHP Rating package blog

About the Github PHP Rating Package

The package Github PHP Rating is one of the few PHP packages that was considered notable recently because it does something that is worth paying attention.

The basic purpose is: Compute a score of your participation in GitHub

Here follows in more detail what it does:

This package can compute a score of your participation in GitHub.

It accesses the Github API to retrieve the list of events of a developer participating in GitHub projects.

The package can assign several points for each participation event. Then it returns the total number of points as a score representing how active you are in participating in projects hosted on GitHub.

Currently, it assigns points to participation events like pushing project changes, creating project changes, participating in reported issues, and committing to comments.

Conclusion

The Github PHP Rating can be downloaded from download page or be installed using the PHP Composer tool following instructions in the Composer install instructions page.

This package was considered notable for implementing its benefits in a way that is worth noticing.

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