Laravel favorites

Manage user favorites in laravel application.

Installation

composer require hamedov/laravel-favorites

Publish config file

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Hamedov\Favorites\FavoritesServiceProvider" --tag="config"

Set user model in config file

• Make sure you do this before migrations

  return [
      'user_model' => \App\User::class,
  ];
  

Execute migrations

php artisan migrate

Setup user model

• Add Hamedov\Favorites\HasFavorites trait to your user model

  class User extends Model {
    use HasFavorites;
  }
  

Usage

• Add item to user favorites

  $book = Book::find(1);
  $user->addFavorite($book);
  
  $ad = Ad::find(1);
  $user->addFavorite($ad);
  

• Remove item from user favorites

  $book = Book::find(1);
  $user->removeFavorite($book);
  

• Get user favorites of specific type

  $favorites = $user->favorites('App\Book')->get();
  // Or
  $favorites = $user->favorites('App\Book')->paginate(10);
  

• Get user favorite ids of specific type

  // This will return a collection of book ids
  // Passing null as a parameter will return all ids
  $favorites = $user->favoriteIds('App\Book');
  

• Get use favorite ids with corresponding types, i.e, pivot table entries

  $favorables = $user->favorables()->get();
  // Or pass type as parameter to get only specific type
  $favorables = $user->favorables('App\Ad')->get();
  

• Remove all user favorites

  $user->flushFavorites();
  // Or
  $user->flushFavorites('App\Book');
  

Available scopes

• hasFavorite Scope users who added specific model to favorites

  $book = Book::find(1);
  $users = App\User::hasFavorite($book)->get();
  

• hasFavoriteOfType Scope users who add any model of specific type to favorites

  $users = App\User::hasFavoriteOfType('App\Book')->get();
  

License

Released under the Mit license, see LICENSE