Laravel Mentions

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A package to parse @mentions from a text and mention the user with a notification.

By default this package is configured to parse any text type and it will replace any matched @mention with a markdown link ([@Mention](/users/profile/@Mention)) if the mentionned user exist in the database. It will also send a notification with the Laravel Notifiable trait to all mentionned users. (Inspired from the laravel-mentions package.)

Quick example :

Input text :

Output text :

And Both Admin and Member users will be notified. But Admin will be notified only one time. (Yes the Parser include an anti-spam rule.)

Table of Contents

• Requirement
• Installation
  • ServiceProviders
  • Vendor Publish
  • Configuration
• Usage
  • Parser configuration
  • Parser configuration methods
• Custom Parser
• Notification
• Contribute

Requirement

Installation

ServiceProviders

Import the MentionServiceProvider in your config/app.php:

Vendor Publish

Publish the vendor files to your application (included the config file config/mentions.php and the migration file) :

Then migrate the database :

Configuration

Usage

First, you will need to add the HasMentionTrait to the mentioner Model :

Now, you can start to parse a text in your controller or where you want :

And that's all ! At least with the default configuration. :stuck_out_tongue_closed_eyes:

Parser configuration

The MentionParser take a second parameter who is a configuration array, this is the default configuration :

The configuration is merged with the default configuration, so you can set only the options that you want to modify. Exemple :

You can also set a configuration at the runtime :

Or even get a configuration option value :

Parser configuration methods :

The parser use the Xety/Configurator package to manage the configuration. Check this repository to get all the methods and their description.

Function Name	Description
setConfig(array $config)	Sets a configuration array.(Will replace all configuration options be carefull)
getConfig()	Get all the configuration options.
setOption(string $name, $value)	Set a value for the given key.
getOption(string $name)	Get a configuration value.
hasOption(string $name)	Determines if current instance has the given option.
mergeConfig(array $values, bool $invert = false)	Merges configuration values with the new ones. If the $invert param is set to true it will merge the default configuration into the $values.

Custom Parser

If you want more flexibility for the Parser, the best way is to create a new Parser and overwrite the methods that you want to modify. For an example, let's create a new Parser that will return a HTML link instead of a Markdown link :

To use it :

You can of course overwrite all Parser's methods if you need to.

Notification

You will need to write your own Notififation class, but I'm cool with you, you can find an example here using the delivery channel database :

Contribute

If you want to contribute, please follow this guide.