README

Comments package for Laravel.

Features

• Simple package to use and install
• Creating Comments
• Approving Comments
• Auto Approve Comments
• Retrieving Comments

Installation

You can install the package via composer:

composer require nazaryuzhyn/laravel-comments

Publish Migration

Add migration to your project:

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Comments\CommentsServiceProvider" --tag=migrations

After the migration has been published you can create the comments table by running the migrations:

php artisan migrate

Publish Package Configs

In your terminal type:

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Comments\CommentsServiceProvider" --tag=config

This command that will be published file with config config/comments.php.

See the full configuration file for more information.

Register the Package

Register package service provider in providers array inside config/app.php

'providers' => [
    // ...

    'Comments\CommentsServiceProvider',

],

Usage

Enable package in models

To let your models be able to receive comments, add the Comments\Traits\Commentable trait to the model

namespace App\Models;

use Comments\Traits\Commentable;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;

class Article extends Model
{
    use Commentable;
    
    // ...
}

Creating Comments

To create a comment on your models, you can use the comment method. It receives the string of the comment that you want to store.

$article = Article::find(1);

$comment = $article->comment('This is a comment...');

The comment method returns the newly created comment class.

Sometimes you may also want to create comments on behalf of other users. You can do this using the commentFromUser method and pass your user model to be bound with this comment:

$user = User::find(1);

$article = Article::find(1);

$comment = $article->commentFromUser($user, 'This is a comment from someone else.');

Approving Comments

By default, all comments that you create are not approved.

To approve a single comment, you may use the approve method on the Comment model like this:

$article = Article::find(1);

$comment = $article->comments->first();

$comment->approve();

Auto Approve Comments

If you want to approve a comment for a specific user automatically you can let your model implement the following interface and property:

namespace App\Models;

use Comments\Contracts\Commentator;
use Illuminate\Foundation\Auth\User as Authenticatable;

class User extends Authenticatable implements Commentator
{
    use Commenting;

    protected bool $autoCommentApproval = true;

    // ...
}

The autoCommentApproval property is intended to specify whether comments should be automatically approved, and you can either return true to mark the comment as approved or false to mark the comment as unapproved.

Retrieving Comments

The models that use the Commentable trait have access to its comments using the comments relation:

$article = Article::find(1);

// Retrieve all comments
$comments = $article->comments;

// Retrieve only approved comments
$approved = $article->comments()->approved()->get();

// Retrieve only disapproved comments
$disapproved = $article->comments()->disapproved()->get();

// Retrieve only for today comments
$commentsForToday = $article->comments()->forToday()->get();

// Retrieve only before today comments
$commentsBeforeToday = $article->comments()->beforeToday()->get();

Testing

composer test

Changelog

Please see CHANGELOG for more information what has changed recently.

License

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