spatie/laravel-there-there

Expose application data as JSON for There There

0.0.4 2026-03-26 19:52 UTC

Requires

• php: ^8.3
• illuminate/contracts: ^11.0||^12.0||^13.0
• spatie/laravel-package-tools: ^1.16

Requires (Dev)

• larastan/larastan: ^3.0
• laravel/pint: ^1.14
• nunomaduro/collision: ^8.8
• orchestra/testbench: ^10.0.0
• pestphp/pest: ^4.0
• pestphp/pest-plugin-arch: ^4.0
• pestphp/pest-plugin-laravel: ^4.0
• phpstan/extension-installer: ^1.4
• phpstan/phpstan-deprecation-rules: ^2.0
• phpstan/phpstan-phpunit: ^2.0
• spatie/laravel-ray: ^1.35

MIT

• Freek Van der Herten

• laravel
• helpdesk
• spatie
• there-there

README

This package makes it easy to expose application data to There There. When a customer opens a ticket in There There, it will call your application to fetch relevant data and display it in the sidebar.

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Installation

You can install the package via composer:

composer require spatie/laravel-there-there

You can publish the config file with:

php artisan vendor:publish --tag="there-there-config"

This is the contents of the published config file:

return [
    'secret' => env('THERE_THERE_SECRET'),
    'url' => '/there-there',
    'middleware' => [
        Spatie\ThereThere\Http\Middleware\IsValidThereThereRequest::class,
        'api',
    ],
];

Add the secret to your .env file. You can find it in your There There workspace settings.

THERE_THERE_SECRET=your-secret-here

Usage

In a service provider (for example AppServiceProvider), register a sidebar callback using the ThereThere facade:

use Spatie\ThereThere\Facades\ThereThere;
use Spatie\ThereThere\SidebarItem;
use Spatie\ThereThere\Http\Requests\ThereThereRequest;

ThereThere::sidebar(function (ThereThereRequest $request) {
    $user = User::firstWhere('email', $request->email());

    if (! $user) {
        return [];
    }

    return [
        SidebarItem::markdown('Name', $user->name),
        SidebarItem::date('Registered at', $user->created_at),
        SidebarItem::numeric('Total orders', $user->orders()->count()),
        SidebarItem::boolean('Is subscribed', $user->subscribed()),
    ];
});

Each SidebarItem has a name, value, and type. The following types are available:

Type	Method	Value
numeric	SidebarItem::numeric($name, $value)	An integer or float
markdown	SidebarItem::markdown($name, $value)	A string (supports Markdown)
date	SidebarItem::date($name, $value)	A DateTimeInterface or ISO 8601 string
boolean	SidebarItem::boolean($name, $value)	A boolean

The package will respond with JSON in this format:

{
    "data": [
        {"name": "Name", "value": "John Doe", "type": "markdown"},
        {"name": "Registered at", "value": "2024-01-15T10:30:00+00:00", "type": "date"},
        {"name": "Total orders", "value": 42, "type": "numeric"},
        {"name": "Is subscribed", "value": true, "type": "boolean"}
    ]
}

Security

All requests are verified using HMAC-SHA256 signatures. The package will reject any request without a valid X-There-There-Signature header.

Testing

composer test

Changelog

Please see CHANGELOG for more information on what has changed recently.

Credits

• Freek Van der Herten
• All Contributors

License

The MIT License (MIT). Please see License File for more information.