Comments for Laravel 5.4 and up

• Installation
• Usage
• License

Installation

This package can be used in Laravel 5.4 or higher. You can install the package via composer:

composer require finagin/laravel-comment

Now add the service provider in config/app.php file:

'providers' => [
    /*
     * Package Service Providers...
     */
    // ...
    Finagin\Comment\CommentServiceProvider::class,
    // ...
];

You must publish the migration with:

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Finagin\Comment\CommentServiceProvider" --tag="migrations"

After the migration has been published you must create the settings-tables by running the migrations:

php artisan migrate

Also you can publish the config file with:

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Finagin\Comment\CommentServiceProvider" --tag="config"

Add CanComment trait to your User model.

use Finagin\Comment\Traits\CanComment;

Add Commentable trait to your commentable model(s).

use Finagin\Comment\Traits\Commentable;

If you want to have your own Comment Model create a new one and extend my Comment model.

class Comment extends Finagin\Comment\Models\Comment
{
  ...
}

Comment package comes with several modes.

1. If you want to Users can rate your model(s) with comment set canBeRated to true in your Commentable model.

class Post extends Model {
  use Commentable;

  protected $canBeRated = true;

  ...
}

2. If you want to approve comments for your commentable models, you must set mustBeApproved to true in your Commentable model.

class Post extends Model {
  use Commentable;

  protected $mustBeApproved = true;

  ...
}

Usage

$user = App\User::find(1);
$post = App\Post::find(1);

// CanComment->comment(Commentable|Commnet $commentable, string $commentText): Comment

// Anonimous first level comment
$comment = (new User(['name' => 'Anonymous']))->comment($post, 'Lorem ipsum ..');

// Users sub comment
$user
    ->comment($comment, 'Lorem ipsum ..');

// Anonimous sub comment
(new User(['name' => 'Anonymous']))
    ->comment($comment, 'Lorem ipsum ..');

License

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