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canvass/canvass-laravel
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Laravel Service Provider for the Canvass form builder

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Canvass Laravel
===============

[](#canvass-laravel)

A Laravel package to build forms and validate form submissions.

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

[](#installation)

You can install this package with composer:

```
composer require canvass/canvass-laravel
```

The package should automatically register itself.

### Migrations

[](#migrations)

You can publish the database migrations using the following command:

```
php artisan vendor:publish --provider="CanvassLaravel\CanvassServiceProvider" --tag="migrations"
```

After the migration has been published you can create the form and field tables by running the migrations:

```
php artisan migrate
```

### Config

[](#config)

You can publish the config file with:

```
php artisan vendor:publish --provider="CanvassLaravel\CanvassServiceProvider" --tag="config"
```

Next Steps
----------

[](#next-steps)

Go to `/admin/form` to see the Canvass interface to create forms and form fields.

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

[](#documentation)

You can find more information at the [Canvass Core project](https://github.com/canvass/canvass-core).

Extending Canvass
-----------------

[](#extending-canvass)

You can add new Field types to extend Canvass.

### Adding a new Field

[](#adding-a-new-field)

- Add a folder that will have FieldData, FieldType and Validate files
- Add the parent path to Forge:

```
\Canvass\Forge::addFieldPath('/the/file/path', '\The\Namespace\Path');
```

- Add a view file for the type in:

```
laravel-dir/resources/views/vendor/canvass/form_field/partials/types

```

###  Health Score

30

—

LowBetter than 64% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity9

Limited adoption so far

Community9

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity70

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 96.1% 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

36

Last Release

1971d ago

Major Versions

v0.12.03 → v1.00.002020-11-11

### Community

Maintainers

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---

Top Contributors

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Tags

canvassform-builderlaravelphp

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