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Laravel Like Package

A powerful and flexible Laravel package that adds social interaction features to your Eloquent models with minimal setup.

✨ Features

• Multiple Interaction Types: Support for likes, dislikes, and loves out of the box
• Fully Extensible: Easily add custom interaction types
• Efficient Queries: Optimized database queries for high performance
• Polymorphic Relationships: Works with any Eloquent model
• Flexible Configuration: Customize table names, model references, and more
• Comprehensive API: Simple, intuitive methods for all interaction types
• Query Scopes: Powerful filtering and sorting capabilities
• UUID Support: Optional UUID support for primary keys
• Caching: Built-in caching for better performance
• Event-Driven: Fires events for all interactions

🚀 Getting Started

Requirements

• PHP 8.1 or higher
• Laravel 9.0 or higher
• Composer

Installation

1. Install the package via Composer:

composer require cslant/laravel-like

2. Publish the configuration file and migrations:

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="CSlant\LaravelLike\Providers\LikeServiceProvider"

3. Run the migrations:

php artisan migrate

🔧 Configuration

The package comes with sensible defaults, but you can customize its behavior by modifying the config/like.php file. Key configuration options include:

• is_uuids: Use UUIDs instead of auto-incrementing IDs
• table_name: Customize the interactions table name
• interaction_model: Specify a custom interaction model
• users.model: Configure the user model
• users.foreign_key: Set the user foreign key

📚 Documentation

Explore the comprehensive documentation to get the most out of Laravel Like:

• Basic Usage - Learn how to add interactions to your models
• Checking Interactions - Determine if users have interacted with content
• Counting Interactions - Get interaction counts and statistics
• Query Scopes - Filter and sort content by interaction data
• Customizing User Interaction - Custom interaction types and advanced features

🤝 Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please see our contributing guide for details.

📄 License

This package is open-sourced software licensed under the MIT License.

🔗 Links

• GitHub Repository
• Issues
• Changelog

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