Add Likes, Bookmarks, Favorites, and Other Marks With Laravel Markable

 Laravel Markable is a package to Integrate likes, bookmarks, favorites, reactions, and custom-made marks into your application.

The basic usage is adding a Markable trait and types of "marks" you want to allow for a given model. For example, if you have a Course model and you want to let users like the course:

 1namespace App\Models;
 2 
 3use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
 4use Maize\Markable\Markable;
 5use Maize\Markable\Models\Like;
 6 
 7class Course extends Model
 8{
 9    use Markable;
10 
11    protected $fillable = [
12        'title',
13        'description',
14    ];
15 
16    protected static $marks = [
17        Like::class,
18    ];
19}

With that model in place, here's what it looks like to manage marks using this package:

 1use App\Models\Course;
 2use Maize\Markable\Models\Like;
 3 
 4// marks the course liked for the given user
 5Like::add($course, $user);
 6 
 7// unmarks the course liked for the given user
 8Like::remove($course, $user);
 9 
10// toggles the course like for the given user
11Like::toggle($course, $user);
12 
13// returns whether the given user likes a course or not
14Like::has($course, $user);
15 
16// returns how many users like a course
17Like::count($course);

The Like model is built-in to the package, but you can also build custom mark models, such as Pledge that allows a user to pledge a donation to a cause.

The package includes various mark types out-of-the-box, including:

• Bookmark
• Favorite
• Like
• Reaction

On the other side of adding a Like for a user, you might what to list all likes for a given user so they can see what courses they've liked:

 1// All course models with a like from the given user
 2Course::whereHasLike(
 3    auth()->user()
 4)->get();
 5 
 6// All post models with a 'heart' reaction from the given user
 7Post::whereHasReaction(
 8    auth()->user(),
 9    'heart'
10)->get();

You can learn more about this package, get full installation instructions, and view the source code on GitHub.Laravel Markable is a package to Integrate likes, bookmarks, favorites, reactions, and custom-made marks into your application.

The basic usage is adding a Markable trait and types of "marks" you want to allow for a given model. For example, if you have a Course model and you want to let users like the course:

 1namespace App\Models;
 2 
 3use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
 4use Maize\Markable\Markable;
 5use Maize\Markable\Models\Like;
 6 
 7class Course extends Model
 8{
 9    use Markable;
10 
11    protected $fillable = [
12        'title',
13        'description',
14    ];
15 
16    protected static $marks = [
17        Like::class,
18    ];
19}

With that model in place, here's what it looks like to manage marks using this package:

 1use App\Models\Course;
 2use Maize\Markable\Models\Like;
 3 
 4// marks the course liked for the given user
 5Like::add($course, $user);
 6 
 7// unmarks the course liked for the given user
 8Like::remove($course, $user);
 9 
10// toggles the course like for the given user
11Like::toggle($course, $user);
12 
13// returns whether the given user likes a course or not
14Like::has($course, $user);
15 
16// returns how many users like a course
17Like::count($course);

The Like model is built-in to the package, but you can also build custom mark models, such as Pledge that allows a user to pledge a donation to a cause.

The package includes various mark types out-of-the-box, including:

• Bookmark
• Favorite
• Like
• Reaction

On the other side of adding a Like for a user, you might what to list all likes for a given user so they can see what courses they've liked:

 1// All course models with a like from the given user
 2Course::whereHasLike(
 3    auth()->user()
 4)->get();
 5 
 6// All post models with a 'heart' reaction from the given user
 7Post::whereHasReaction(
 8    auth()->user(),
 9    'heart'
10)->get();

You can learn more about this package, get full installation instructions, and view the source code on GitHub.