In this tutorial, we will show you how to add reactions using the Reactify Laravel package created by the PHPDominica community.

Installation

You can install the package via composer:

composer require phpdominicana/reactify

You can publish and run the migrations with:

php artisan vendor:publish --tag="reactify-migrations"
php artisan migrate

You can publish the config file with:

php artisan vendor:publish --tag="reactify-config"

This is the contents of the published config file:

return [
];

Optionally, you can publish the views using

php artisan vendor:publish --tag="reactify-views"

Usage

Add the trait to the model you want to add reactions.

class comments extends Model
{
    use Reactify;
}

Sample usage

$comment = Comment::find(1);
$comment->react($user->id, Reaction::LIKE);
$comment->react($user->id, Reaction::DISLIKE);
$comment->react($user->id, Reaction::LOVE);
$comment->react($user->id, Reaction::HAHA);
$comment->getReactCountByType(Reaction::LIKE);