Simple Comments Package for Laravel

 The Laravel Comments package by Ryan Chandler is a dead-simple package for adding comments to models in Laravel. Using the HasComments trait on your models, you can quickly add comments attributed to users:

1use RyanChandler\Comments\Concerns\HasComments;
2 
3class Post extends Model
4{
5    use HasComments;
6}

Given a post model, you can add a comment using the following method:

1$post = Post::first();
2 
3$post->comment('Hello, world!');

The above example is automatically attributed to the logged-in user. You can also assign a comment to a specific user:

1$post->comment('Hello, world!', user: $user);

This package also supports comment parent threads, meaning a comment can belong to another comment.

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

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A Package for Onboarding Users in Laravel Apps

 Laravel Onboard is a Laravel package to help track user onboarding steps created by Spatie:

Here's a quick example taken from the project readme on using this package to create onboarding steps:

 1use App\User;
 2use Spatie\Onboard\Facades\Onboard;
 3 
 4// You can add onboarding steps in a `boot()` method within a service provider
 5Onboard::addStep('Complete Profile')
 6    ->link('/profile')
 7    ->cta('Complete')
 8    ->completeIf(function (User $user) {
 9        return $user->profile->isComplete();
10    });
11 
12Onboard::addStep('Create Your First Post')
13    ->link('/post/create')
14    ->cta('Create Post')
15    ->completeIf(function (User $user) {
16        return $user->posts->count() > 0;
17    });

To get a user's onboarding status—among other things—the package has a nice API for accessing things like percentage complete, in progress, finished, and details about individual steps:

 1/** @var \Spatie\Onboard\OnboardingManager $onboarding **/
 2$onboarding = Auth::user()->onboarding();
 3 
 4$onboarding->inProgress();
 5 
 6$onboarding->percentageCompleted();
 7 
 8$onboarding->finished();
 9 
10$onboarding->steps()->each(function($step) {
11	$step->title;
12	$step->cta;
13	$step->link;
14	$step->complete();
15	$step->incomplete();
16});

Additionally, this package supports features such as:

• Conditionally excluding steps with custom logic
• Defining custom attributes on a step
• Use middleware to ensure a user completes onboarding before they are allowed to use certain features
• And more

You can get started with this package by checking it out on GitHub at spatie/laravel-onboard. Their blog post can also give you some examples and further details on how you can use this package.

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