Likeable Trait

Allows for easy creation of a user address book system. Address book functions similar to Amazon or Paypal user address book storage. Users can manage mutliple persona addresses. Fully open sourced under the MIT liscense and free for all to copy/use/and modify.

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Laravel Likeable Plugin

Important Note: As of version 1.2 I renamed Conner\Likeable\LikeableTrait to Conner\Likeable\Likeable

Trait for Laravel Eloquent models to allow easy implementation of a "like" or "favorite" or "remember" feature.

Laravel 5 Documentation
Laravel 4 Documentation

Composer Install (for Laravel 5)

composer require rtconner/laravel-likeable "~1.2"

Install and then run the migrations

'providers' => [
    \Conner\Likeable\LikeableServiceProvider::class,
],

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Conner\Likeable\LikeableServiceProvider" --tag=migrations
php artisan migrate

Setup your models

class Article extends \Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model {
    use \Conner\Likeable\LikeableTrait;
}

Sample Usage

$article->like(); // like the article for current user
$article->like($myUserId); // pass in your own user id
$article->like(0); // just add likes to the count, and don't track by user

$article->unlike(); // remove like from the article
$article->unlike($myUserId); // pass in your own user id
$article->unlike(0); // remove likes from the count -- does not check for user

$article->likeCount; // get count of likes

$article->likes; // Iterable Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Collection of existing likes 

$article->liked(); // check if currently logged in user liked the article
$article->liked($myUserId);

Article::whereLikedBy($myUserId) // find only articles where user liked them
    ->with('likeCounter') // highly suggested to allow eager load
    ->get();

Credits

Robert Conner - http://smartersoftware.net