Laravel Likeable Package

This Package is for Laravel 5+ and makes it easy to implement Liking/Favoriting system for Eloquent's Models. just use the trait in the model and you're good to go.

Composer Install (for Laravel 5+)

composer require alibayat/likeable

Publish and Run the migrations

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="AliBayat\LaravelLikeable\LikeableServiceProvider" --tag=migrations

php artisan migrate

if you're using Laravel version 5.5+, Likeable package will be auto-discovered by Laravel. and if not: register the package in config/app.php providers array manually.

'providers' => [
	...
	\AliBayat\LaravelLikeable\LikeableServiceProvider::class,
],

Setup models - just use the Trait in the Model.

<?php

namespace App;

use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
use AliBayat\LaravelLikeable\Likeable;

class Post extends Model
{
	use Likeable;

}

Usage

$post->like(); // like the post for current user
$post->like($userId); // pass in the user id
$post->like(0); // just adding likes to the count, and don't track any user

$post->unlike(); // remove like from the post
$post->unlike($userId); // pass in the user id
$post->unlike(0); // remove likes from the count -- does not check for user

$post->likeCount; // get Total count of likes

$post->likes; // Collection (Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Collection) of existing likes 

$post->liked(); // check if currently logged in user liked the post
$post->liked($userId); // pass in the user id

Post::likedBy($userId) // find only posts where user liked them
	->with('likeCounter') // with eager loading
	->get();

Credits

• Ali Bayat - [email protected]