Comments is a Laravel package. With it you can easily implement native comments for your application.

This package can be used to comment on any model you have in your application.

All comments are stored in a single table with a polymorphic relation for content and a polymorphic relation for the user who posted the comment.

• View comments
• Create comments
• Delete comments
• Edit comments
• Reply to comments
• Authorization rules
• Support localization
• Dispatch events
• Route, Controller, Comment, Migration & View customizations
• Support for non-integer IDs
• Support for multiple User models
• Solved N+1 query problem
• Comment approval (opt-in)
• Guest commenting
• Pagination [New]

Here are a few screenshots.

No comments & guest:

No comments & logged in:

One comment:

One comment edit form:

Two comments from different users:

I plan to expand this chapter with more tutorials and articles. If you write something about this package let me know, so that I can update this chapter.

Screencasts:

• Adding comments to your Laravel application by Andre Madarang.

From the command line:

composer require laravelista/comments

We need to create the table for comments.

php artisan migrate

Add the Commenter trait to your User model so that you can retrieve the comments for a user:

use Laravelista\Comments\Commenter;

class User extends Authenticatable
{
    use Notifiable, Commenter;
}

Add the Commentable trait to the model for which you want to enable comments for:

use Laravelista\Comments\Commentable;

class Product extends Model
{
    use Commentable;
}

Publish the config file (optional):

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

The default UI is made for Bootstrap 4, but you can change it however you want.

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Laravelista\Comments\ServiceProvider" --tag=views

You can publish migration to allow you to have more control over your table

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

In the view where you want to display comments, place this code and modify it:

@comments(['model' => $book])

In the example above we are setting the commentable_type to the class of the book. We are also passing the commentable_id the id of the book so that we know to which book the comments relate to. Behind the scenes, the package detects the currently logged in user if any.

If you open the page containing the view where you have placed the above code, you should see a working comments form.

To view only approved comments, use this code:

@comments([
    'model' => $book,
    'approved' => true
])

Pagination paginates by top level comments only, meaning that if you specify the number of comments per page to be 1, and that one comment has 100 replies, it will display that one comment and all of its replies.

It was not possible to do it any other way, because if I paginate by all comments (parent and child) you will end up with blank pages since the comments components loops parent comments first and then uses recursion for replies.

To use pagination, use this code:

@comments([
    'model' => $user,
    'perPage' => 2
])

Replace 2 with any number you want.

This package fires events to let you know when things happen.

• Laravelista\Comments\Events\CommentCreated
• Laravelista\Comments\Events\CommentUpdated
• Laravelista\Comments\Events\CommentDeleted

To change the controller or the routes, see the config.

Route::post('comments', '\Laravelista\Comments\CommentController@store');
Route::delete('comments/{comment}', '\Laravelista\Comments\CommentController@destroy');
Route::put('comments/{comment}', '\Laravelista\Comments\CommentController@update');
Route::post('comments/{comment}', '\Laravelista\Comments\CommentController@reply');

Request data:

'commentable_type' => 'required|string',
'commentable_id' => 'required|string|min:1',
'message' => 'required|string'

• {comment} - Comment ID.

Request data:

'message' => 'required|string'

• {comment} - Comment ID.

Request data:

'message' => 'required|string'

If you are updating an already existing database table comments and want support for guest commenting (new installations get this by default), then create a new migration with php artisan make:migration add_guest_commenting_columns_to_comments_table and paste this code inside:

<?php

use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Schema;
use Illuminate\Database\Schema\Blueprint;
use Illuminate\Database\Migrations\Migration;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\DB;

class AddGuestCommentingColumnsToCommentsTable extends Migration
{
    /**
     * Run the migrations.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function up()
    {
        Schema::table('comments', function (Blueprint $table) {
            $table->string('commenter_id')->nullable()->change();
            $table->string('commenter_type')->nullable()->change();

            $table->string('guest_name')->nullable();
            $table->string('guest_email')->nullable();
        });
    }
}

Finally, run php artisan migrate.

If you are updating an already existing database table comments and want support for approving comments (new installations get this by default), then create a new migration with php artisan make:migration add_approved_column_to_comments_table and paste this code inside:

<?php

use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Schema;
use Illuminate\Database\Schema\Blueprint;
use Illuminate\Database\Migrations\Migration;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\DB;

class AddApprovedColumnToCommentsTable extends Migration
{
    /**
     * Run the migrations.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function up()
    {
        Schema::table('comments', function (Blueprint $table) {
            $table->boolean('approved')->default(true)->nullable();
        });
    }
}

Finally, run php artisan migrate.

If you are updating an already existing database table comments and want support for multiple user models (new installations get this by default), then create a new migration with php artisan make:migration add_commenter_type_column_to_comments_table and paste this code inside:

<?php

use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Schema;
use Illuminate\Database\Schema\Blueprint;
use Illuminate\Database\Migrations\Migration;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\DB;

class AddCommenterTypeColumnToCommentsTable extends Migration
{
    /**
     * Run the migrations.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function up()
    {
        Schema::table('comments', function (Blueprint $table) {
            $table->string('commenter_id')->change();
            $table->string('commenter_type')->nullable();
        });

        DB::table('comments')->update([
            'commenter_type' => '\App\User'
        ]);
    }
}

Then, add doctrine/dbal dependency with:

composer require doctrine/dbal

Finally, run php artisan migrate.

If you are updating an already existing database table comments and want support for non-integer IDs (new installations get this by default), then create a new migration with php artisan make:migration allow_commentable_id_to_be_string and paste this code inside:

<?php

use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Schema;
use Illuminate\Database\Schema\Blueprint;
use Illuminate\Database\Migrations\Migration;

class AllowCommentableIdToBeString extends Migration
{
    /**
     * Run the migrations.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function up()
    {
        Schema::table('comments', function (Blueprint $table) {
            $table->string('commentable_id')->change();
        });
    }
}

Then, add doctrine/dbal dependency with:

composer require doctrine/dbal

Finally, run php artisan migrate.

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