norris1z/admin_user_chat

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A simple chat between users and an admin

v1.2 2017-02-26 20:12 UTC

Requires

• php: >=5.6.4

MIT

• Norris Oduro

• chat
• laravel
• norris1z
• admin_user

README

A Laravel chat package to facilitate chatting between users and administrators

Installation

Begin by installing this package through Composer. Run this command from the Terminal:

composer require norris1z/admin_user_chat

Laravel integration

To wire this up in your Laravel project you need to add the service provider. Open app.php, and add a new item to the providers array.

'Norris1z\AdminUserChat\AdminUserChatServiceProvider::class',

Run this command from terminal

php artisan vendor:publish

This adds admin_user_chat.php to the config.php file.

Run this command from terminal

php artisan migrate

to run package migrations.

Usage

sendMessageToUser, sendMessageToAllUsers, sendMessageToAdministrator, sendMessageToAllAdministrators

All accept 3 parameters sender,recipient,message

//User Controller 

public function message(Request $request,AdminUserChat $chat)
{
    $admin = User::where('is_admin',true)->first();
    
    //This sends a message to an administrator given the admin_id and message
    $chat->sendMessageToAdministrator(Auth::id(),$admin->id,$request->message);
    
     //This sends a message to all administrators given the admin_id and message
    $chat->sendMessageToAllAdministrators(Auth::id(),$admin->id,$request->message);
    
}

// Admin Controller

public function message(Request $request,AdminUserChat $chat)
{
    // This sends a message from the administrator to a user
    $chat->sendMessageToUser(Auth::id(),$request->user_id,$request->message);
    
    // This sends a message from the administrator to all users
    $chat->sendMessageToAllUsers(Auth::id(),$request->user_id,$request->message);
}

Config parameters

table which refers to the user table name

column_name which refers to the column name in the database which checks if a user is an administrator

admin_role which refers to the type of admin check eg. bool true / false or using numbers for roles

user_id which refers to the user id column name in the database

database which refers to the name of the messages table name