Laravel Commentable Package

This Package makes it easy to implement Commenting system for Eloquent's Models. just use the trait in the model and you're good to go.

Requirements

• PHP 7.2+
• Laravel 7+

Installation

composer require alibayat/laravel-commentable

Publish and Run the migrations

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="AliBayat\LaravelCommentable\CommentableServiceProvider"

php artisan migrate

Laravel Commentable package will be auto-discovered by Laravel. and if not: register the package in config/app.php providers array manually.

'providers' => [
	...
	\AliBayat\LaravelCommentable\CommentableServiceProvider::class,
],

Setup models - just use the Trait in the Model.

<?php

namespace App\Models;

use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
use AliBayat\LaravelCommentable\Commentable;

class Post extends Model
{
	use Commentable;

}

Usage

use App\Models\User;
use App\Models\Post;
use AliBayat\LaravelCommentable\Comment;


//  assuming that we have these variables
$user = User::first();
$post = Post::first();

Create a comment for the post

$commentData = [
	'title' => 'comment title (nullable)',
	'body' => 'comment body'
];

$post->comment($commentData, $user);

Create a child comment for the post

$parentComment = Comment::first();

$childCommentData = [
	'title' => 'comment title (nullable)',
	'body' => 'comment body'
];

$post->comment($childCommentData, $user, $parentComment);

Update a comment of the post

$comment = Comment::first();

$newData = [
	'body' => 'new body of the comment to update'
];

$post->updateComment($comment->id, $newData);

Delete a single comment of the post

$comment = Comment::first();

$post->deleteComment($comment->id);

Delete all the comments of the post

$post->comments()->delete();

Check if a comment has any children (boolean)

$comment = Comment::first();

$comment->hasChildren();

Count comments of the post

$post->commentCount();

Show comments on a post

$post->allComments(); // shows all comments (including children)
$post->comments(); // shows only top level comments

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Activation

by default when you create a comment, it will be stored as a deactivated comment, unless you provide an 'active' field and set it to true:

$activeComment = [
	'body'   => 'comment body',
	'active' => true
];

$comment = $post->comment($activeComment, $user);

but you can always change the comment's state of activation by using below methods:

Activate

$comment->active();

// returns a boolean indicating the state of operation

Deactivate

$comment->deactivate();

// returns a boolean indicating the state of operation

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Relationships

comments Relationship

$postWithComments = Post::with('comments')->get();

// returns a collection of all comments associated with the post

activeComments Relationship

$postWithActiveComments = Post::with('activeComments')->get();

// returns a collection of all active comments associated with the post

parent Relationship

$comment = Comments::latest()->first();

$comment->parent;

// returns the comment's parent if available

children Relationship

$comment = Comments::latest()->first();

$comment->children;

// returns the comment's children if available

ancestors Relationship

$comment = Comments::latest()->first();

$comment->ancestors;

// return the comment's ancestors if available

descendants Relationship

$comment = Comments::latest()->first();

$comment->descendants;

// return the comment's descendants if available

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Additional functionalities

thanks to the great laravel-nestedset package, you have access to some additional functionalities, we review some of them here but you can always refer to the package's repository for the full documentation.

toTree()

$post->comments->toTree();

// returns a collection of the comment's tree structure associated with the post

toFlatTree()

$post->comments->toFlatTree();

// return a collection of the comment's flat tree structure associated with the post

saveAsRoot()

$comment = $post->comments()->latest()->first();

$comment->saveAsRoot();

// Implicitly change the comment's position to Root
// returns boolean

makeRoot()

$comment = $post->comments()->latest()->first();

$comment->makeRoot()->save();

// Explicitly change the comment's position to Root
// returns boolean

Credits

• Ali Bayat
• All Contributors