Laravel Likeable Plugin

This is a fork from rtconner/laravel-likeable by Robert Conner - smartersoftware.net , thank you for smart software :)

We have added option to have dislike as separate field (counter) or any other countable social reaction (follow,hate,dislike,like ..)

TODO:

Inspired by other laravel-likeable packages, will add options to tracks reaction with timestamp, which gives us more deep metrics etc..

Trait for Laravel Eloquent models to allow easy implementation of a "like" or "favorite" or "remember" feature.

Laravel 5 Documentation
Laravel 4 Documentation

Composer Install (for Laravel 5+)

composer require nanosolutions/laravel-likeable "~1.3"

Install and then run the migrations

'providers' => [
	\Nano\Likeable\LikeableServiceProvider::class,
],

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Nano\Likeable\LikeableServiceProvider" --tag=migrations
php artisan migrate

Setup your models

use Nano\Likeable\Likeable;

class Article extends Model {
	use Likeable;
}

Sample Usage

$article->like(); // like the article for current user
$article->like($myUserId); // pass in your own user id
$article->like(0); // just add likes to the count, and don't track by user

$article->unlike(); // remove like from the article
$article->unlike($myUserId); // pass in your own user id
$article->unlike(0); // remove likes from the count -- does not check for user

// Dislike (new metric)
$article->like('dislike'); // alias -> $article->dislike();
$article->unlike('dislike'); // alias -> $article->dislike($myUserId);

// Or anything you want (no alias)
$article->like('follow');
$article->unlike('follow');


$article->likeCount; // get count of likes
$article->dislikeCount; // get count of dislikes

$article->likes; // Iterable Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Collection of existing likes
$article->dislikes; // Iterable Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Collection of existing disklikes
$article->liked(); // check if currently logged in user liked the article
$article->disliked(); // check if currently logged in user disliked the article
$article->liked($myUserId);

Article::whereLiked($myUserId) // find only articles where user liked them
	->with('likeCounter') // highly suggested to allow eager load
	->get();

Credits

• Robert Conner - http://smartersoftware.net