laravel-InviteMe

Provides an invitation mechanism for Laravel applications. Note that this package does not handle, how the invitation is sent to the user (e.g., via email).

Installation

First, add the respective line to your composer file

"require" : {
   ... ,
   "johannesschobel/laravel-inviteme": "dev-master" ,
}

and run composer install to install the new component.

Then add respective ServiceProvider from the package to your config/app.php configuration file, like this:

'providers' => [
   ... ,
   JohannesSchobel\InviteMe\InviteMeServiceProvider::class,
],

Then, you simply add the provided migration file using the following command:

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="JohannesSchobel\InviteMe\InviteMeServiceProvider" --tag="migrations"

and then you migrate your database using

php artisan db:migrate

If you want, you can overwrite the basic configuration of this package using the following command:

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="JohannesSchobel\InviteMe\InviteMeServiceProvider" --tag="config"

This will copy the inviteme configuration file to your config folder. Using this file, you can customize the various parameters of the package. Currently, not many are available, however, I will be adding more and more ;)

Usage

In order to create an Invitation you simply create an new InvitationManager(). This class manages all the provided functionality.

Available Methods

createInvitation

If you want to create an Invitation for a user, call this method. Respective parameters are:

    @param String $email the email this invitation shall be sent (not handled by this package!)
    @param integer $days amount of days this invitation will be available
    @param object $model bind this invitation to a specific model
    @param String $custom custom data for this invitation 
    
    @return Invitation | null the created invitation

The main purpose, I have created this package, was that already existing Invitation packages only provides functionality to invite (new) users to the application / platform. However, they to not allow for inviting users to participate at a specific resource.

Example:

As an editor, working on a Dcoument, I would like to invite other Users to participate working on my document. Therefore, I would create an Invitation using the following code:

// the document I would like to invite other users to.
$document = Document::find(1);

// get the user that shall be invited
$user = User::find(1);

$im = new InvitationManager();
$invitation = $im->createInvitation(
    $user->email,   // the email this invitation shall be sent to
    10,             // the invitation shall be available for 10 days (optional)
    $document,      // the document this user shall be invited to (optional)
    null            // additional information (optional)
);

// now do whatever you like with this invitation
// this invitation is now bound to this specific resource $document

All other methods are quite self-explaining, but I will add docs for them later on, as I continue working on this package.