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An implementation of a Customer Support Chat System in Laravel.

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Table of Contents

1. Features
2. Requirements
3. Installation
4. What's next?
5. License

Features 🤩

• Customer support chatbox in every single page of your web app
• Admin panel for chatting with customers (available at: http://your-domain/chattle/chat-admin)
• Self-hosted pusher replacement by beyondcode laravel websockets

Requirements

• Laravel 10
• PHP 8.1 or higher

Installation

Default installation is via Composer.

composer require jeet/chattle --with-all-dependencies

The service provider will automatically get registered. Or you could add the Service Provider manually to your config/app file in the providers section.

'providers' => [
    //...
    Jeet\Chattle\ChatServiceProvider::class,
]

Publish the assets for css and js files

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Jeet\Chattle\ChatServiceProvider"

Configure the following in your .env

BROADCAST_DRIVER=pusher

PUSHER_APP_ID=qwerty12345

PUSHER_APP_KEY=qwerty12345

PUSHER_APP_SECRET=qwerty12345

PUSHER_HOST=127.0.0.1

PUSHER_PORT=6001

PUSHER_SCHEME=http

PUSHER_APP_CLUSTER=mt1

If you want to change the pusher app key and secret make sure that you change them not only in .env file, but also in /public/js/chattle_customer.js and /public/js/chattle_admin.js - where the pusher instance is created

Run the migrations in order to setup the required tables on the database.

php artisan migrate

Include the customer support chatbox on your layout blade file's body section

@include('chattle::chat')

Now serve your websockets and laravel app in different command lines

php artisan websockets:serve

php artisan serve

Admin dashboard for chatting with customers available at http://your-domain/chattle/chat-admin

What's next 🚀

• Realtime typing effect in chatboxes for users to let know that user or admin is typing
• Marking messages as read when they are read by user or admin
• Middleware and chat-admin roles control
• Multiple color themes configured in configs

License

Laravel Customer Support Chat - is open-sourced software licensed under the MIT license.