jbaron-mx/laravel-recombee

An expressive fluent API wrapper around Recombee's SDK to use within Laravel applications

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Recombee is an AI-powered recommendation engine that delivers amazing user experiences with recommendations based on users' behavior and interests.

This package is a Recombee PHP SDK wrapper for Laravel. It provides an expressive fluent API to seamlessly integrate personalized recommendations into your application in the Laravel way. Heavily inspired in Laravel Scout.

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Supports

• PHP: 8.0, 8.1, 8.2
• Laravel: 8, 9, 10, 11

Prerequisites

1. Create an account in Recombee.
2. Create a database within your account.

Installation & Setup

Install with Composer:

composer require jbaron-mx/laravel-recombee

Publish config file:

php artisan vendor:publish --tag="recombee-config"

Add to your .env file:

Replace the values with your database details from Recombee.

RECOMBEE_DATABASE="my-store"
RECOMBEE_TOKEN="token"
RECOMBEE_REGION="us-west"

Add your corresponding models to your config/recombee.php:

'user' => App\Models\User::class,
'item' => App\Models\Product::class,

Add Recommendable trait to your corresponding models:

use Baron\Recombee\Recommendable;

class User extends Authenticatable
{
    use Recommendable;
    ...

use Baron\Recombee\Recommendable;

class Product extends Model
{
    use Recommendable;
    ...

Quick Usage

For full documentation please visit the wiki.

Create properties in your Recombee database:

use Baron\Recombee\Facades\Recombee;

// Create a user property
Recombee::user()
    ->property('active', 'boolean')    // 2nd argument is optional, string by default.
    ->save();

// Create multiple user properties
Recombee::user()->properties([
    'name' => 'string',
    'age' => 'int',
    'active' => 'boolean',
])->save();

// Create an item property
Recombee::item()
    ->property('available', 'boolean')    // 2nd argument is optional, string by default.
    ->save();

// Create multiple item properties
Recombee::item()->properties([
    'description' => 'string',
    'price' => 'double',
    'available' => 'boolean',
])->save();

Import users and items:

For batch import, please visit the Batch Import section in the wiki.

use Baron\Recombee\Facades\Recombee;

// Import a user
Recombee::user($userId, [
    'name' => 'John Doe',
    'age' => 29,
    'active' => true,
])->save();

// Import a user via model
User::first()->recommendable();

// Import an item
Recombee::item($itemId, [
    'description' => 'Magic Keyboard 3',
    'price' => 59.99,
    'available' => true,
])->save();

// Import an item via model
Product::first()->recommendable();

Retrieve users and items:

get() returns an instance of Collection for which all its convenient methods are available, refer to Laravel Docs for all available methods.

use Baron\Recombee\Facades\Recombee;

// Basic get limited to 25 results by default
Recombee::user()->get(); 
Recombee::item()->get(); 

// Same methods are available for users and items
Recombee::item()
    ->select('description', 'price', 'available')   // Select these properties only
    ->take(50)                                      // Limited to 50 results
    ->option('filter', "'price' > 25")              // Filtered by price
    ->get()

Create interactions:

use Baron\Recombee\Facades\Recombee;

// User has viewed this item
Recombee::user($userId)->viewed($itemId)->save();

// User has purchased this item
Recombee::user($userId)->purchased($itemId)->save();

// User has rated this item (Scale from -1.0 to 1.0, see docs)
Recombee::user($userId)->rated($itemId, 0.5)->save();

// User has added this item to his cart
Recombee::user($userId)->carted($itemId)->save();

// User has bookmarked this item
Recombee::user($userId)->bookmarked($itemId)->save();

// User has partially viewed this item (Scale from 0 to 1, see docs)
Recombee::user($userId)->viewedPortion($itemId, 0.5)->save();

Get personalized recomendations:

use Baron\Recombee\Facades\Recombee;

// Recommended items for a given user, typically used in a "Picked just for you" section.
Recombee::user($userId)->recommendItems()->take(50)->get();

// Recommended users for another given user, based on the user's past interactions and values of properties.
Recombee::user($userId)->recommendUsers()->get();

// Recommended items that are related to a given item, typically used in a "Similar Products" section.
Recombee::item($itemId)->recommendItems()->get();

// Recommended users that are likely to be interested in a given item.
Recombee::item($itemId)->recommendUsers()->get();

Documentation

Please visit the wiki for full documentation.

Testing

composer test

Changelog

Please see CHANGELOG for more information on what has changed recently.

Contributing

Please see CONTRIBUTING for details.

Security Vulnerabilities

Please review our security policy on how to report security vulnerabilities.

Credits

• All Contributors

License

The MIT License (MIT). Please see License File for more information.