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secrethash/trickster
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Trickster is a package for laravel that has many useful tricks that can be used for quick and easy website management.

v2.3.1(8y ago)642.7kMIT

Since Jul 4Compare

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Trickster
=========

[](#trickster)

A Simple Extended helper functions for Laravel. Supports v5.3+ (also **v5.5**). Tricks that will optimize you development.

> **Open For Suggestions** on more Tricks/Helper Functions that Laravel does not provides by default. **Give your suggestions using *Issue* Tracking feature of GitHub** and I will do my best to add them.

Upgrade Guide
-------------

[](#upgrade-guide)

### To v2.3.1

[](#to-v231)

- Update your published `config\trickster.php` according to the project's updated `config\trickster.php`.
    - **Update your Google Finance API URL**, check the [config/trickster.php](src/config/trickster.php) configuration file.

Trickster’s Tricks
------------------

[](#tricksters-tricks)

```
1. Truncator
2. Email Validator
3. Slug Converter
4. YouTube Embed
5. Gravatar Grabber
6. Extension Splitter
7. Simple Social Analytics
8. BB Code Engine
9. Tags Sweeper
10. Time Ago
11. Cipher
12. Vimeo Video Embed
13. Video Info Grabber
14. Wikipedia Grabber
15. URL Shortener
16. Suggest
17. IP Grabber
18. Currency Converter

```

Why Trickster?
--------------

[](#why-trickster)

- Trickster is an Laravel package that makes Laravel Fun by extending the helper functions.
- Trickster provides extended Helper Functions a.k.a Tricks that makes coding with Laravel Fun.
- With **Trickster** inside your **Laravel framework**, your app will become a **Gambit**. :-P

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

[](#installation)

Installing Trickster is easy. Just type the command:

```
composer require secrethash/trickster
```

or add this line in your `composer.json` file:

```
        "secrethash/trickster": "2.*"
```

Requirements
------------

[](#requirements)

- **Laravel 5.3+**
- **cURL**
- **PHP 5.4.x**

Important Links
---------------

[](#important-links)

- **[Trickster's Documentation](https://secrethash.github.io/trickster)**
- ChangeLog: **To Be Added Soon**

###  Health Score

35

—

LowBetter than 77% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity27

Limited adoption so far

Community9

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity70

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 61.9% 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 ~39 days

Recently: every ~57 days

Total

12

Last Release

3212d ago

Major Versions

1.2.6 → 2.0.02017-06-20

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/11258035?v=4)[Shashwat Mishra](/maintainers/secrethash)[@secrethash](https://github.com/secrethash)

---

Top Contributors

[![secrethash](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/11258035?v=4)](https://github.com/secrethash "secrethash (26 commits)")[![RodWizard](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/5007017?v=4)](https://github.com/RodWizard "RodWizard (14 commits)")[![m1guelpf](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/23558090?v=4)](https://github.com/m1guelpf "m1guelpf (2 commits)")

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