README

This is a clone of hootlex/laravel-friendships that includes support for Laravel 5.8 as the original package does not seem to be maintained anymore.

This package gives Eloquent models the ability to manage their friendships. You can easily design a Facebook like Friend System.

Models can:

• Send Friend Requests
• Accept Friend Requests
• Deny Friend Requests
• Block Another Model
• Group Friends

Installation

First, install the package through Composer.

composer require giliomeejg/laravel-friendships

If you are using Laravel < 5.5, you need to add giliomeejg\Friendships\FriendshipsServiceProvider to your config/app.php providers array:

giliomeejg\Friendships\FriendshipsServiceProvider::class,

Publish config and migrations

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="giliomeejg\Friendships\FriendshipsServiceProvider"

Configure the published config in

config\friendships.php

Finally, migrate the database

php artisan migrate

Setup a Model

use giliomeejg\Friendships\Traits\Friendable;
class User extends Model
{
    use Friendable;
    ...
}

How to use

Check the Test file to see the package in action

Send a Friend Request

$user->befriend($recipient);

Accept a Friend Request

$user->acceptFriendRequest($sender);

Deny a Friend Request

$user->denyFriendRequest($sender);

Remove Friend

$user->unfriend($friend);

Block a Model

$user->blockFriend($friend);

Unblock a Model

$user->unblockFriend($friend);

Check if Model is Friend with another Model

$user->isFriendWith($friend);

Check if Model has a pending friend request from another Model

$user->hasFriendRequestFrom($sender);

Check if Model has already sent a friend request to another Model

$user->hasSentFriendRequestTo($recipient);

Check if Model has blocked another Model

$user->hasBlocked($friend);

Check if Model is blocked by another Model

$user->isBlockedBy($friend);

Get a single friendship

$user->getFriendship($friend);

Get a list of all Friendships

$user->getAllFriendships();

Get a list of pending Friendships

$user->getPendingFriendships();

Get a list of accepted Friendships

$user->getAcceptedFriendships();

Get a list of denied Friendships

$user->getDeniedFriendships();

Get a list of blocked Friendships

$user->getBlockedFriendships();

Get a list of pending Friend Requests

$user->getFriendRequests();

Get the number of Friends

$user->getFriendsCount();

Get the number of Pendings

$user->getPendingsCount();

Get the number of mutual Friends with another user

$user->getMutualFriendsCount($otherUser);

Friends

To get a collection of friend models (ex. User) use the following methods:

Get Friends

$user->getFriends();

Get Friends Paginated

$user->getFriends($perPage = 20);

Get Friends of Friends

$user->getFriendsOfFriends($perPage = 20);

Collection of Friends in specific group paginated:

$user->getFriends($perPage = 20, $group_name);

Get mutual Friends with another user

$user->getMutualFriends($otherUser, $perPage = 20);

Friend groups

The friend groups are defined in the config/friendships.php file. The package comes with a few default groups. To modify them, or add your own, you need to specify a slug and a key.

// config/friendships.php
...
'groups' => [
    'acquaintances' => 0,
    'close_friends' => 1,
    'family' => 2
]

Since you've configured friend groups, you can group/ungroup friends using the following methods.

Group a Friend

$user->groupFriend($friend, $group_name);

Remove a Friend from family group

$user->ungroupFriend($friend, 'family');

Remove a Friend from all groups

$user->ungroupFriend($friend);

Get the number of Friends in specific group

$user->getFriendsCount($group_name);

To filter friendships by group you can pass a group slug.

$user->getAllFriendships($group_name);
$user->getAcceptedFriendships($group_name);
$user->getPendingFriendships($group_name);
...

Events

This is the list of the events fired by default for each action

Contributing

See the CONTRIBUTING guide.