Laravel Chat

This package will allow you to add a full user messaging system into your Laravel application.

Notice

This package is for Laravel 5.6 | 5.7 | 5.8 | 6.* | 7.* | 8.*

Installation

composer require dominservice/laravel_chat

Or place manually in composer.json:

"require": {
    "dominservice/laravel_chat": "^2.0"
}

Run:

composer update

Add the service provider to config/app.php

'providers' => [
    Dominservice\LaravelChat\LaravelChatServiceProvider::class,
],

(...)

'aliases' => [
    'LaravelChat' => Dominservice\LaravelChat\Facade\LaravelChat::class,
]

Publish config:

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Dominservice\LaravelChat\LaravelChatServiceProvider"

Migrate

php artisan migrate

Usage

Get User Conversations:

$convs = LaravelChat::getConversations($user_id);

This will return you a "Illuminate\Support\Collection" of "Dominservice\LaravelChat\Entities\Conversation" objects. And foreach Conversation there, you will have the last message of the conversation, and the users of the conversation. Example:

foreach ( $convs as $conv ) {
    $getNumOfUsers = $conv->getNumOfUsers();
    $users = $conv->users; /* Collection */
            
    /* $lastMessage Dominservice\LaravelChat\Entities\Message */
    $lastMessage = $conv->getLastMessage();
            
    $senderId = $lastMessage->sender;
    $content = $lastMessage->content;
    $status = $lastMessage->status;
}

Get User specific conversation:

$conv = LaravelChat::getConversationMessages($conv_id, $user_id);

This will return you a "Dominservice\LaravelChat\Entities\Conversation" object. On the object you could get all messages, all users, conv_id, and more, simply browse the object itself. Example:

foreach ( $conv->messages as $msg ) {
    $senderId = $msg->sender;
    $content = $msg->content;
    $status = $msg->status; /* Collection statuses for all users */
    $statusUser = $msg->statusForUser($userId = null);
}

Get the conversation id of a conversation between two users:

$conv = LaravelChat::getConversationByTwoUsers($userA_id, $userB_id);

Simply gives you an id of the conversation between two users, this was created for redirecting to the conversation page when user tries to send a message to another user, so if there is no id returned that means that those users has no conversation yet, so we could create one.

Add a new message to conversation:

$conv = LaravelChat::addMessageToConversation($conv_id, $user_id, $content);

Simply add a message to an exiting conversation, content is the message text.

Create a new conversation:

$conv = LaravelChat::createConversation($users_ids=array(), $relationType = null, $relationId = null);

Creates a new conversation with the users id's you passed in the array.

Get all users in conversation:

$conv = LaravelChat::getUsersInConversation($conv_id);

returns an array of user id in the conversation.

Delete conversation:

$conv = LaravelChat::deleteConversation($conv_id, $user_id);

"Deletes" the conversation from a specifc user view.

Check if user is in conversation:

$conv = LaravelChat::isUserInConversation($conv_id, $user_id);

True or False if user is in conversation.

Get number of unread messages for specific user:

$conv = LaravelChat::getNumOfUnreadMsgs($user_id);

return an integer of number of unread messages for specific user.

Mark all messages as "read" for specifc user in conversation:

$conv = LaravelChat::markReadAllMessagesInConversation($conv_id, $user_id);

Example

public function conversations($convId=null) {
    $currentUser = Auth::user();
    //get the conversations
    $convs = LaravelChat::getConversations( $currentUser->id );
    //array for storing our users data, as that LaravelChat only provides user id's
    $users = [];
    
    //gathering users
    foreach ( $convs as $conv ) {
        $users = array_merge($users, $conv->getAllUsers());
    }
    //making sure each user appears once
    $users = array_unique($users);
    
    //getting all data of users
    if ( !empty($users) ) {
        $users = User::whereIn('id', $users)->with('profileImage')->getDictionary();
    }
            
    return View::make('conversations_page')
        ->with('users', $users)
        ->with('user', $currentUser)
        ->with('convs', $convs);
}

Helpers

Get all conversations for user. If userId is null then set current user id.

get_conversations($userId = null);

Create conversations between selected users, in array must be id list.

set_conversation($users = []);

Delete conversations for user. If userId is null then set current user id.

delete_conversation($convId, $userId = null);

Check is user in conversations. If userId is null then set current user id.

in_conversation($convId, $userId = null);

Add message to conversations. If userId is null then set current user id.

conversation_add_message($convId, $content, $userId = null);

Add message to conversations between two users, it also create conversation if not exist, or add to exist. If senderId is null then set current user id.

conversation_add_message_between($content, $receiverId, $senderId = null);

Get count unread messages for user. If userId is null then set current user id.

conversation_unread_count($userId = null);

Get conversation between two users. If senderId is null then set current user id.

conversation_between($receiverId, $senderId = null);

Get conversation messages. If userId is null then set current user id.

conversation_messages($convId, $userId = null, $newToOld = true);
conversation_messages_unread($convId, $userId = null, $newToOld = true);

Mark messages. If userId is null then set current user id.

conversation_mark_as_archived($msgId, $userId = null);
conversation_mark_as_deleted($msgId, $userId = null);
conversation_mark_as_unread($msgId, $userId = null);
conversation_mark_as_read($msgId, $userId = null);

conversation_mark_as_read_all($convId, $userId = null);
conversation_mark_as_unread_all($convId, $userId = null);

Credits

tzookb/tbmsg