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fbf/laravel-categories
======================

A Laravel 4 package for adding one or more types of category hierarchies to a website

v0.2.0(12y ago)165767[2 issues](https://github.com/FbF/Laravel-Categories/issues)PHPPHP >=5.3.0

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Laravel Categories
==================

[](#laravel-categories)

A Laravel 4 package for adding one or more types of category hierarchies to a website

e.g. a hierarchy for blog categories and another for product 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
- Sample FrozenNode/Administrator config file for managing the categories

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

[](#installation)

Add the following to you composer.json file (Recommend swapping "dev-master" for the latest release)

```
"fbf/laravel-categories": "dev-master"

```

Run

```
composer update

```

Add the following to app/config/app.php

```
'Fbf\LaravelCategories\LaravelCategoriesServiceProvider'

```

Publish the config

```
php artisan config:publish fbf/laravel-categories

```

Run the migration

```
php artisan migrate --package="fbf/laravel-categories"

```

Ensure the categories `types` are set correctly in the config file.

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

```
php artisan db:seed --class="Fbf\LaravelCategories\CategoriesTableBaseSeeder"

```

Build your menus in the database, or if you are using FrozenNode's Laravel Administrator, see the info below

Administrator
-------------

[](#administrator)

You can use the excellent Laravel Administrator package by FrozenNode to administer your categories.

A ready-to-use model config file for the `Category` model (`categories.php`), including custom actions to reorder nodes in the hierarchy, is provided in the `src/config/administrator` directory of the package, which you can copy into the `app/config/administrator` directory (or whatever you set as the `model_config_path` in the administrator config file).

###  Health Score

28

—

LowBetter than 54% of packages

Maintenance18

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity23

Limited adoption so far

Community13

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity49

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 66.7% 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 ~0 days

Total

2

Last Release

4458d ago

### Community

Maintainers

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Top Contributors

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