nuummite/laravel-followable

Helper traits to start your microblogging laravel application.

Laravel Followable

Introduction

Laravel Followable provides a set of Traits and classes to kick start your microblogging site or your add social collaboration to your current project., _(*1)

License

Laravel Followable is open-sourced software licensed under the MIT license, _(*2)

Official Documentation

To get started with Laravel Followable, add to your composer.json file as a dependency:, _(*3)

composer require nuummite/laravel-followable

Configuration

After installing the Socialite library, register the Nuummite\Followable\Providers\FollowableServiceProvider in your config/app.php configuration file:, _(*4)

'providers' => [
    // Other service providers...

    Nuummite\Followable\Providers\FollowableServiceProvider::class,
],

Run the vendor publish artisan command to expose the needed migrations:, _(*5)

php artisan vendor:publish

Run the migrations using artisan command. This will create the needed tables in your database. These are: followables and feed_messages, _(*6)

php artisan migrate

Basic Usage

As a final step, you can use the traits FollowableTrait and FollowerTrait of this package in your User class in order to start coding your microblogging app., _(*7)

It's as easy as thinking that a User can "follow" and can be "followed". So we add the needed functionallity to the User class., _(*8)

You can also add these traits to any object. So if you'd like, for example, make a "Task" followable you can do it also! This is usefull when you want to add social collaboration to your application., _(*9)