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delatbabel/nestedcategories
===========================

A Laravel 5 package for nested categories.

v1.1(9y ago)31.4k22MITPHPPHP >=5.4.0

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nestedcategories
================

[](#nestedcategories)

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A Laravel 5 package for adding one or more types of category hierarchy to a website.

e.g. a hierarchy for blog categories and another for product categories

This is a Laravel 5 reimplementation of [Laravel 4 Categories](https://github.com/FbF/Laravel-Categories)

Comes with
----------

[](#comes-with)

- Migration for the `categories` table
- Category Model (that extends Baum/Node so you can use all the handy methods from this excellent nested set implementation)
- Seed for building the root nodes, one for each type of hierarchy, specified in your config file

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

[](#installation)

Add these lines to your composer.json file:

```
    "require": {
        "delatbabel/nestedcategories": "~1.0"
    },

```

Once that is done, run the composer update command:

```
    composer update

```

Alternatively just run this command:

```
    composer require delatbabel/nestedcategories

```

### Register Service Provider

[](#register-service-provider)

After composer update completes, add this line to your config/app.php file in the 'providers' array:

```
    Delatbabel\NestedCategories\NestedCategoriesServiceProvider::class

```

### Publish the Migrations

[](#publish-the-migrations)

Publish the migrations

```
    php artisan vendor:publish

```

Run the migration

```
    php artisan migrate

```

Ensure the categories `types` are set correctly in the seeder file. You can initialise this to whatever you like.

### Run the Seeders

[](#run-the-seeders)

Run the seed (this will create root nodes for each of your category `types`)

```
    php artisan db:seed --class="CategoriesTableBaseArraySeeder"

```

You may prefer to build your own **CategoriesTableSeeder** class based on the code in **CategoriesTableBaseArraySeeder** to seed your own initial set of categories.

Usage
=====

[](#usage)

This class relies on the behind-the-scenes capabilities of Baum. For details on the use of that see the [README on github](https://github.com/etrepat/baum) or the [Baum web site](http://etrepat.com/baum/)

###  Health Score

32

—

LowBetter than 72% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity20

Limited adoption so far

Community15

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity64

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 86% 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 ~58 days

Recently: every ~97 days

Total

8

Last Release

3344d ago

### Community

Maintainers

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Tags

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