garak/pokerino

A PHP library to manage Poker card games

v0.2.0 2025-07-10 09:30 UTC

Requires

• php: ^8.1
• doctrine/collections: ^2.0
• garak/card: ^0.7

Requires (Dev)

• friendsofphp/php-cs-fixer: ^3.80
• phpstan/phpstan-strict-rules: ^2.0
• phpunit/phpunit: ^10.5 || ^11.5 || ^12.2

LGPL-3.0-or-later

• Massimiliano Arione

README

Introduction

This library offers some PHP classes useful for creating a Poker card game:

• Game (needs to be extended)
• Player (needs to be extended)
• Hand
• PokerRank

Installation

Run composer require garak/pokerino.

Usage

Here is an example of a game:

<?php

require 'vendor/autoload.php';

use App\Game;   // this is your Game class, extending \Garak\Pokerino\Game
use App\Player;   // this is your Player class, extending \Garak\Pokerino\Player

$game = new Game();
$game->addPlayer(new Player('Marty McFly'));
$game->addPlayer(new Player('Biff Tannen'));
$game->addPlayer(new Player('Emmett Brown'));
$game->addPlayer(new Player('Jennifer Parker'));
$game->deal();  // deal 2 cards to each player
$game->hands(); // return an array of \Garak\Pokerino\Hand

Credits

The original idea was developed with davidino.