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dascentral/laravel-helpers
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A personal collection of helper functions for use within Laravel projects.

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Laravel Helpers
===============

[](#laravel-helpers)

My personal set of helper functions for use within [Laravel](https://laravel.com/) projects.

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

[](#installation)

```
composer require dascentral/laravel-helpers
```

Helpers
-------

[](#helpers)

### Faker

[](#faker)

Shorthand use of the [Faker](https://github.com/fzaninotto/Faker) library.

```
faker('name');
// 'Dr. Zane Stroman'

faker()->streetAddress;
// '439 Karley Loaf Suite 897'
```

Inspiration
-----------

[](#inspiration)

I'd like to thank the following authors for publishing code that provided inspiration.

- [sebastiaanluca/laravel-helpers](https://github.com/sebastiaanluca/laravel-helpers)

###  Health Score

36

—

LowBetter than 82% of packages

Maintenance54

Moderate activity, may be stable

Popularity12

Limited adoption so far

Community9

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity57

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 97.7% 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

Every ~47 days

Recently: every ~82 days

Total

8

Last Release

1833d ago

PHP version history (2 changes)0.0.1PHP ^7.3

0.0.8PHP ^7.3|^8.0

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/282edec36c22e5fc8a48d74b744ceb8129bf333a50673196eb48f0407bbda77f?d=identicon)[dascentral](/maintainers/dascentral)

---

Top Contributors

[![dascentral](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/487177?v=4)](https://github.com/dascentral "dascentral (42 commits)")[![dependabot[bot]](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/in/29110?v=4)](https://github.com/dependabot[bot] "dependabot[bot] (1 commits)")

---

Tags

laravelhelpers

###  Code Quality

TestsPHPUnit

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