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Informations about the package laravel-chat

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Laravel Chat Package

A powerful and customizable chat system built for Laravel applications. This package supports private and group chats, media sharing, chat settings, user roles, activity messages, and more.

🚀 Features

📦 Installation

Or, manually publish configuration file:

Run migrations:

Make sure storage is linked:

⚙️ Configuration

Customize settings in config/chat.php:

1. Chat type:

You can switch between standard (private/group chat) and universal (global chat):

Also in universal type, you can enable/disable some modules:

2. Pagination:

Enable or disable pagination:

3. Activity Messages

Automatically generated for:

You can disable all activity messages globally:

4. User Model Configuration

Define how user information (name and avatar) is retrieved:

5. Rate Limiting

You can control how many chats a user can create and how many messages they can send per minute. These limits help prevent spam and abuse.

📡 Events in Laravel Chat

Laravel Chat dispatches events to help you hook into the system and extend functionality such as notifications, logging, analytics, and more.

🔥 Available Events

Metafroliclabs\LaravelChat\Events\MessageSent

Dispatched when a message is successfully sent in a chat.

Event Data:

⚙️ How to Use

Step 1: Create a Listener

Step 2: Handle the Event

🔧 Register the Listener

In your app/Providers/EventServiceProvider.php:

Then run:

🧠 Usage

📚 API Endpoints

All routes are prefixed by the config value chat.prefix (default: chat) and use the chat.middleware middleware group.

Middleware: auth:sanctum is required.

🔍 Chat List & Info

Method Endpoint Description
GET /all/list Get all chats for the user
GET /unread/list Get all unread chats
GET /unread/count Get unread chat count

🛠️ Chat Management

Method Endpoint Description
POST /create Create private chat
POST /create/group Create group chat
POST /{id}/update Update chat name/image/settings
POST /{id}/delete Delete a chat
POST /{id}/leave Leave group chat
POST /{id}/mute Mute/unmute chat
GET /{id} Chat detail

👥 User Management

Method Endpoint Description
GET /{id}/users Get all users in the chat
POST /{id}/users/add Add users to a group
POST /{id}/users/remove Remove users
POST /{id}/users/{uid}/admin Promote/demote user to/from admin

💬 Messaging

Method Endpoint Description
GET /{id}/messages Get all messages in a chat
POST /{id}/messages Send a new message
POST /{id}/messages/forward Forward messages
POST /{id}/messages/{mid}/update Update a message
POST /{id}/messages/{mid}/delete Delete a message

💖 Reactions & Views

Method Endpoint Description
GET /{id}/messages/{mid}/likes Get users who liked a message
POST /{id}/messages/{mid}/likes Like/unlike a message
GET /{id}/messages/{mid}/views Get users who viewed a message
POST /{id}/messages/{mid}/views Mark message as viewed

⚡ Rate Limiting

Some endpoints are rate limited to prevent abuse:

If a user exceeds these limits, a 429 Too Many Requests response will be returned by the API.

📄 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.

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