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aedart/athenaeum-acl
====================

ACL package for Laravel, with roles and permissions (grouped)

9.25.1(2mo ago)02.4k↓33.3%BSD-3-ClausePHPPHP ^8.3

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Athenaeum Acl
=============

[](#athenaeum-acl)

Offers a small [ACL](https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Access_control_list) implementation for Laravel, with roles and permissions (grouped) that are stored in a database.

Database tables
---------------

[](#database-tables)

The following diagram illustrates the database tables (*pivot tables not shown*).

```
┌───────┐
│ users │
└───┬───┘
    │
    │  Each user can be assigned none or many roles
    │
┌───▼───┐
│ roles │
└───┬───┘
    │
    │  Each role is granted none or many permissions
    │
┌───▼─────────┐
│ permissions │
└───┬─────────┘
    │
    │  Each permission belongs to a group of permissions
    │
┌───▼────┐
│ groups │
└────────┘

```

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

[](#documentation)

Please read the [official documentation](https://aedart.github.io/athenaeum/) for additional information.

Repository
----------

[](#repository)

The mono repository is located at [github.com/aedart/athenaeum](https://github.com/aedart/athenaeum)

Versioning
----------

[](#versioning)

This package follows [Semantic Versioning 2.0.0](http://semver.org/)

License
-------

[](#license)

[BSD-3-Clause](http://spdx.org/licenses/BSD-3-Clause), Read the LICENSE file included in this package

###  Health Score

54

—

FairBetter than 97% of packages

Maintenance86

Actively maintained with recent releases

Popularity20

Limited adoption so far

Community7

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity86

Battle-tested with a long release history

 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 ~12 days

Total

143

Last Release

75d ago

Major Versions

5.27.0 → 6.0.02022-04-05

6.8.1 → 7.0.02023-02-16

7.33.0 → 8.0.02024-03-18

8.22.0 → 9.0.02025-03-04

PHP version history (6 changes)5.8.0PHP >=7.4.0

6.0.0PHP ^8.0.2

7.0.0PHP ^8.1

7.21.0PHP ^8.1.22

8.0.0PHP ^8.2

9.0.0PHP ^8.3

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1523223?v=4)[Alin Eugen Deac](/maintainers/aedart)[@aedart](https://github.com/aedart)

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Top Contributors

[![aedart](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1523223?v=4)](https://github.com/aedart "aedart (335 commits)")

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Tags

authorizationaclrolespermissionsAthenaeumaccess controll list

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