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acacha/names
============

Provides alternative names to Laravel models.

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Provides alternatives names to Laravel 5 models.

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

[](#installation)

```
composer require acacha/names
```

### Migrations

[](#migrations)

Run:

```
php artisan migrate
```

To add **names** table to you Laravel project. Is not necessary to modify existent Model tables to add alternatives names to an existing model.

Use
---

[](#use)

Basically this package uses Laravel polymorphic-relations ([1](https://laravel.com/docs/5.3/eloquent-relationships#polymorphic-relations)) to add alternative names to models.

You only have to add trait **Acacha\\Names\\Nameable** to you model:

```
class MyModel extends Model {
    use Nameable;
    ...
}
```

This will add polimorphic relation **names()** that gives access to alternative model names:

```
mymodel->names();
```

Specifications
--------------

[](#specifications)

Table **names**

Columns:

- id
- shortname: Model/resource short name.
- fullname: resource fullname.
- nickname: resource nickname.
- code: resource code.
- description: resource description.
- notes: resource notes.
- nameable\_type : nameable object class
- nameable\_id: nameable object id

###  Health Score

27

—

LowBetter than 49% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity15

Limited adoption so far

Community7

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity55

Maturing project, gaining track record

 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 ~2 days

Total

3

Last Release

3451d ago

### Community

Maintainers

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Top Contributors

[![acacha](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/4015406?v=4)](https://github.com/acacha "acacha (7 commits)")

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