Talk is a Laravel 5 based user conversation (inbox) system. You can easily integrate this package with your any laravel based project. Its help to you to develop a messeging system in 25 mins. So lets start :)

Talk is a laravel package so you can install it via composer. write this code in your terminal from your project

composer require nahid/talk

Wait for a while, composer will be automatically install talk in your project.

After downloading complete now you have to call this package service in config/app.php config file. So add this line in app.php providers section

Nahid\Talk\TalkServiceProvider::class,

To use facade you have to add these line in app.php aliases array

'Talk'      => Nahid\Talk\Facades\Talk::class,

Now run this command from your terminal to publish this package resources

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Nahid\Talk\TalkServiceProvider"

After run this command all necessary file will be included with your project. This package has two default migrations. So you have to run migrate command like these. Make sure your database configuration was configure correctly.

php artisan migrate

Okay, now you have configure your user model for Talk. Go to config/talk.php and config it.

return [
    'user' => [
        'table' => 'your_users_table_name',
        'model' => 'User\Model',
        'columns' => ['column1', 'column2']
    ]
];

[NB: Here columns mean which column do you want for inbox query]

Its very easy to use. First you have set authenticate user id to Talk.

Talk::setAuthUserId(auth()->user()->id);

Now you may use any method what you need. Please see the API Doc.

• setAuthUserId
• isConversationExists
• isAuthenticUser
• sendMessage
• sendMessageByUserId
• getInbox
• getConversationsById
• getConversationsByUserId
• makeSeen
• deleteMessage
• deleteForever
• deleteConversations

setAuthUserId method set the user id which you pass from parameter

Syntax

void setAuthUserId($userid)

This method check currently logged in user and given user is already conversation

Syntax

int/false isConversationExists($userid)

isAuthenticUser check the given user is exists in given conversation.

Syntax

boolean isAuthenticUser($conversationId, $userId)

You can send message via conversation id by using this method. If successfully send message it return Message model objects otherwise false

Syntax

object/false sendMessage($conversationId, $message)

You can send message via receiver id by using this method. If successfully send message it return Message model objects otherwise false

Syntax

object/false sendMessageByUserId($userId, $message)

If you want to get all inbox this method may help you. This method get all inboxes via given user id

Syntax

object getInbox($user[, $offset[, $take]])

When you want to get all conversations by using your desire conversation id you can try it. This method return all conversations with users objects

Syntax

object getConversationsById($conversationId)

When you want to get all conversations by using your desire receiver id you can try it. This method return all conversations with users objects

Syntax

object getConversationsByUserId($receiverId)

If you want set a message as seen you can use it.

Syntax

boolean makeSeen($messageId)

When you want to delete a specific message from conversation you have to use it. This method soft delete message for both user-end individually.

Syntax

boolean deleteMessage($messageId)

If you want to hard delete or permanently delete a specific message then you have to use this method

Syntax

boolean deleteForever($messageId)

This method is used for permanently delete all conversations

Syntax

boolean deleteConversations($conversationId)