Provides a trait to allow rating of multiple models within your app for Laravel 5.
Ratings could be fivestar style, or simple +1/-1 style.
Edit your project's composer.json file to require willvincent/laravel-rateable
.
"require": {
"willvincent/laravel-rateable": "~1.0"
}
Next, update Composer from the terminal.
composer update
As with most Laravel packages you'll need to register Rateable service provider. In your config/app.php
add 'willvincent\Rateable\RateableServiceProvider'
to the end of the $providers
array.
'providers' => [
Illuminate\Foundation\Providers\ArtisanServiceProvider::class,
Illuminate\Auth\AuthServiceProvider::class,
...
willvincent\Rateable\RateableServiceProvider::class,
],
After the package is correctly installed, you need to generate the migration.
php artisan rateable:migration
It will generate the <timestamp>_create_ratings_table.php
migration. You may now run it with the artisan migrate command:
php artisan migrate
After the migration, one new table will be present, ratings
.
You need to set on your model that it is rateable.
<?php namespace App;
use willvincent\Rateable\Rateable;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
class Post extends Model
{
use Rateable;
}
Now, your model has access to a few additional methods.
First, to add a rating to your model:
$post = Post::first();
$rating = new willvincent\Rateable\Rating;
$rating->rating = 5;
$rating->user_id = \Auth::id();
$post->ratings()->save($rating);
dd(Post::first()->ratings);
Once a model has some ratings, you can fetch the average rating:
$post = Post::first();
dd($post->averageRating);
// $post->averageRating() also works for this.
Also, you can fetch the rating percentage. This is also how you enforce a maximum rating value.
$post = Post::find();
dd($post->ratingPercent(10)); // Ten star rating system
// Note: The value passed in is treated as the maximum allowed value.
// This defaults to 5 so it can be called without passing a value as well.
// $post->ratingPercent(5) -- Five star rating system totally equivilent to:
// $post->ratingPercent()