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This package will allow you to add a full user messaging system into your Laravel application.

Features

Multiple conversations per user
Optionally loop in additional users with each new message
View the last message for each thread available
Returns either all messages in the system, all messages associated to the user, or all message associated to the user with new/unread messages
Return the users unread message count easily
Very flexible usage so you can implement your own access control

composer require muyaedward/messenger

Or place manually in composer.json:

"require": {
    "muyaedward/messenger": "dev-master"
}

Run:

composer update

Add the service provider to config/app.php under providers:

'providers' => [
    Muyaedward\Messenger\MessengerServiceProvider::class,
],

Note: If you are using Laravel 5.5, this step is unnecessary. Laravel Messenger supports Package Discovery.

Publish config:

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Muyaedward\Messenger\MessengerServiceProvider" --tag="config"

Update config file to reference your User Model:

config/messenger.php

Create a users table if you do not have one already. If you need one, the default Laravel migration will be satisfactory.

(Optional) Define names of database tables in package config file if you don't want to use default ones:

'messages_table' => 'messenger_messages',
'participants_table' => 'messenger_participants',
'threads_table' => 'messenger_threads',

Publish migrations:

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Muyaedward\Messenger\MessengerServiceProvider" --tag="migrations"

Migrate your database:

php artisan migrate

Add the trait to your user model:

use Muyaedward\Messenger\Traits\Messagable;

class User extends Authenticatable {
    use Messagable;
}

Please format your code before creating a pull-request. This will format all files as specified in .php_cs:

vendor/bin/php-cs-fixer fix .

This package used cmgmyr/laravel-messenger as a starting point.