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bodunde/states-and-local-govt
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Populates your DB with all the states in Nigeria and their local governments. It also creates the models for you

v1.0(9y ago)6297↓100%5MITPHP

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Laravel-Nig-States-LocalGovt
============================

[](#laravel-nig-states-localgovt)

A Laravel Package that populates your database with all the states in the Nigeria and their corresponding local governments.

Setup
-----

[](#setup)

- Include package in your project by running `composer require bodunde/states-and-local-govt`
- Add `Bodunde\SLG\SLGServiceProvider::class` to provider in `app.php` under `config` directory
- Publish package resources by running `php artisan vendor:publish`. Running this command would publish models, migrations and seeders.
- Run published migrations `php artisan migrate`
- Regenerate your autoload files `composer dump-autoload`
- Run published database seeders `php artisan db:seed --class=SlgTableSeeder`

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

- Import models into your controllers

**Note: If your root namespace in your application isn't `app` make sure you go to the models and modify the namespace**

```
...
use App\State;
use App\LocalGovt;

...
...
// fetch all states
$states = State::all();

// fetch state by id
$state = State::find($id) // where $id = 1

// fetch state by name
$state = State::findByName("Lagos State");

//get state local governments
$lg = $state->localGovernments;

// get all local governments
$lgs = LocalGovt::all();

// fetch local government by id
$lg = LocalGovt::find($id) // where $id = 1

// fetch local government state
$state = $lg->state;
```

###  Health Score

32

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LowBetter than 72% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity20

Limited adoption so far

Community12

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity63

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 91.7% 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

Unknown

Total

1

Last Release

3498d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d4788fa54147cc95c210c54ba74e295fb57f230215eb15601e34a28d6f195678?d=identicon)[badebiyi](/maintainers/badebiyi)

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Top Contributors

[![bodunadebiyi](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/16083774?v=4)](https://github.com/bodunadebiyi "bodunadebiyi (11 commits)")[![raphyabak](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/58911706?v=4)](https://github.com/raphyabak "raphyabak (1 commits)")

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