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rcrowe/laravel-database
=======================

Brings some missing functionality to the Laravel Database layer.

v0.1.0(12y ago)018PHP

Since Sep 23Pushed 12y ago1 watchersCompare

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Laravel-Database
================

[](#laravel-database)

Provides extra / missing functionality to Laravels database layer.

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

[](#installation)

Add `rcrowe\laravel-database` as a requirement to composer.json:

```
{
    "require": {
        "rcrowe/laravel-sentry": "0.1.*"
    }
}
```

Update your packages with `composer update` or install with `composer install`.

Once Composer has installed or updated your packages you need to register with Laravel itself. Open up app/config/app.php and the existing database service provider `'Illuminate\Database\DatabaseServiceProvider'` and replace it with the following:

```
'rcrowe\Database\DatabaseServiceProvider'
```

Functionality
-------------

[](#functionality)

This library provides the following extra functionality:

### Schema builder

[](#schema-builder)

- `character` has been added to the schema builder (MySql / Postgre). Use like `$table->character('field', 6)`. Taken from

###  Health Score

23

—

LowBetter than 26% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity6

Limited adoption so far

Community4

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity53

Maturing project, gaining track record

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

Unknown

Total

1

Last Release

4663d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/07866bb8494b78f654ccdb78c6322a5651cbb8d2a85eaa210db90d833ecd0927?d=identicon)[rcrowe](/maintainers/rcrowe)

---

Tags

laraveldatabase

###  Code Quality

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