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textagroup/brafton-api
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SilverStripe module to fetch feeds from Brafton API

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Brafton API
===========

[](#brafton-api)

Introduction
------------

[](#introduction)

This module is used for the Brafton/Castleford API

Copyright (C) 2010-2014

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see .

Maintainer Contact
------------------

[](#maintainer-contact)

```
* Kirk Mayo kirk.mayo (at) solnet (dot) co.nz

```

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

[](#requirements)

```
* SilverStripe 3.0 +

```

Features
--------

[](#features)

- Connects to Brafton/Castleford API

Composer Installation
---------------------

[](#composer-installation)

composer require textagroup/brafton-api

Installation Manual
-------------------

[](#installation-manual)

1. Download the module form GitHub (Composer support to be added)
2. Extract the file (if you are on windows try 7-zip for extracting tar.gz files
3. Make sure the folder after being extracted is named 'brafton-api'
4. Place this directory in your sites root directory. This is the one with framework and cms in it.
5. Run in your browser - `/dev/build` to rebuild the database.

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

To use the module you will need to specify the api key and api URL in the Brafton tab of settings.

The module contains a task to connect to the API and retrieve the content and images from the Brafton API.

The images are stored in assets as a normal SilverStripe Image and the items and categories are stored in the DataObjects BraftonNewsItem and BraftonNewsCategory.

This module acts as a wrapper for the [Brafton API library](http://www.brafton.com/support/php-sample/).

A good example of how this works is the job to fetch the blog items [FetchBraftonBlogItemsJob](code/jobs/FetchBraftonBlogItemsJob.php). This calls the Braftonservice class and the constructor handles connecting and creating a API object which can then be retrieved by the method getApi

```
        $service = new BraftonService();
        $api = $service->getApi();
        if ($api) {
            $newsItems = $api->getNewsHTML();
            foreach ($newsItems as $item) {
                $service->addNews($item);
            }
        }

```

###  Health Score

22

—

LowBetter than 21% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity12

Limited adoption so far

Community9

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity41

Maturing project, gaining track record

 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.

### Community

Maintainers

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Top Contributors

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