Laravel commentary

A package for Laravel to post a comment on an article and to manage them.

Description

This package comes with 3 parts:

• comment form
• comment listing
• comment management

The form allows anyone to post a comment on something. It can be applied to any view. The same goes for ther comment listing.

The comment management allows someone to

• approve
• unapprove
• edit
• trash

comments.

Screenshots

Form

Management

Implementation

ServiceProvider

'Alexwenzel\LaravelCommentary\LaravelCommentaryServiceProvider'

Namespace

The package registers the following namespace: laravel-commentary

Migration

php artisan migrate --package="alexwenzel/laravel-commentary"

The migration creates a table named: laravel-commentary-comments

Comment controllers

There is a controller to manage the comments, and there is a controller for the frontend stuff. The management controller is best behind a secured route.

Include something like the following line in your routes.php:

/**
 * Comment Management
 */
Route::controller('commentsmanagement', 'Alexwenzel\LaravelCommentary\ManagementController');

/**
 * Comment Frontend
 */
Route::controller('commentsfrontend', 'Alexwenzel\LaravelCommentary\FrontendController');

If you need to customize the management section, override the views within your project.

Comment form

To display the comment form, include something like the following line in your view:

{{ View::make('laravel-commentary::comment-form', array('entity'=>'my_article_id')) }}

Register the controller first, otherwise you will get errors.

Comment listing

To display the comments of an entity, include something like the following line in your view:

{{ View::make('laravel-commentary::comment-list', array('entity'=>'my_article_id')) }}

Register the controller first, otherwise you will get errors.

The following conditions are applied to the comment listing. Comments:

• have to be approved
• are ordered by creation time

Comment controller behaviour

The behaviour can be customized by overriding CommentaryActionHandler class.

Events

The following events are fired:

laravel-commentary.comment-posted // first parameter is the comment
laravel-commentary.comment-approved // first parameter is the comment
laravel-commentary.comment-unapproved // first parameter is the comment
laravel-commentary.comment-trashed // first parameter is the comment

Assets

This package comes with default styles.

php artisan asset:publish alexwenzel/laravel-commentary

Localization

Read here: http://laravel.com/docs/localization#overriding-package-language-files