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mmanos/laravel-utilities
========================

Custom Laravel application utilities.

v1.2.0(11y ago)532[1 issues](https://github.com/mmanos/laravel-utilities/issues)MITCSS

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Custom Utilities for Laravel 4
==============================

[](#custom-utilities-for-laravel-4)

This package contains custom Laravel application utilities to make installation, configuration, and management of Laravel 4 applications easier and less time consuming.

The changes made by this package are highly opinionated and are not suitable for everyone.

Installation Via Composer
-------------------------

[](#installation-via-composer)

Download this installer using Composer.

```
$ composer global require "mmanos/laravel-utilities=~1.0"
```

Make sure to place the `~/.composer/vendor/bin` directory in your PATH so the `mmanos-laravel` executable is found when you run the `mmanos-laravel` command in your terminal.

Simply add this directory to your PATH in your ~/.bash\_profile (or ~/.bashrc):

```
export PATH=~/.composer/vendor/bin:$PATH

```

Once installed, the simple `mmanos-laravel` [global composer command](https://getcomposer.org/doc/03-cli.md#global) will be available to run the project commands listed below.

Updates Via Composer
--------------------

[](#updates-via-composer)

To keep this package up to date:

```
$ composer global update mmanos/laravel-utilities
```

Uninstalling
------------

[](#uninstalling)

To remove this package, you edit `~/.composer/composer.json` and then run:

```
$ composer global update
```

Commands
--------

[](#commands)

Run the commands below to initialize and/or modify Laravel 4 applications.

#### New

[](#new)

Create a fresh Laravel installation with dependencies in the directory you specify. This command also make's the app/storage/\* directories writable.

```
$ mmanos-laravel new [directory]
```

For instance, `mmanos-laravel new blog` would create a directory named `blog` containing a fresh Laravel installation.

> **Note:** This runs the composer create-project command to check out the latest version of Laravel and install it's dependencies.

#### Prepare

[](#prepare)

Prepare a fresh version of Laravel by adding helpful functionality. This command will do the following:

- Create app/classes directory and autoload it
- Configure local environment detection
- Install helper functions file
- Configure event callbacks
- Configure the HTTP Exceptions handler
- Enable sending of custom headers in response
- Set app timezone to America/Chicago
- Configure a common site/company name for use throughout the app
- Create a custom model class for other models to extend
- Ignore local config files in Git
- Add Carbon class alias

```
$ mmanos-laravel prepare
```

> **Note:** Run from the base directory of the Laravel application.

#### Front End

[](#front-end)

Configure an existing Laravel application with helpful front-end functionality. This command will do the following:

- Create assets directory structure
- Install package [laravel-casset](https://github.com/mmanos/laravel-casset)
- Install package [bootstrap](https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap)
- Install package [jquery](https://github.com/jquery/jquery)
- Install library [Font Awesome](http://fontawesome.io/)
- Enable IE8 responsive css support (via html5shiv.js and respond.js)
- Create a default layout
- Configure default controllers and views
- Create a default email layout

```
$ mmanos-laravel frontend
```

> **Note:** Run from the base directory of the Laravel application.

#### Authorize

[](#authorize)

Configure an existing Laravel application with authorization functionality. This command will do the following:

- Create user migrations, models, services, validators, and event handlers
- Create an auth controller along with it's resources
- Create a signup controller along with it's resources
- Install ACL functionality built on the [zendframework/zend-permissions-acl](http://framework.zend.com/manual/2.2/en/modules/zend.permissions.acl.intro.html) package

```
$ mmanos-laravel authorize
```

> **Note:** Run from the base directory of the Laravel application.

###  Health Score

29

—

LowBetter than 60% of packages

Maintenance16

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity12

Limited adoption so far

Community8

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity67

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% 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 ~24 days

Recently: every ~30 days

Total

6

Last Release

4149d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/972055?v=4)[Mark Manos](/maintainers/mmanos)[@mmanos](https://github.com/mmanos)

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Top Contributors

[![mmanos](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/972055?v=4)](https://github.com/mmanos "mmanos (10 commits)")

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