Whenever somebody creates a comments, this package can send a notification when comments are made. Out of the box such a notification is always an email.
##Subscribing to notifications
You can let a user subscribe to notifications like this:
use \Spatie\Comments\Enums\NotificationSubscriptionType;
$user->subscribeToCommentNotifications($model, NotificationSubscriptionType::All);
This will send a notification to $user whenever a comment is posted by anyone to the given $model.
You can also only send a notification to $user when a new comment is posted on things that $user already commented on. For the behaviour, use NotificationSubscriptionType::Participating
use \Spatie\Comments\Enums\NotificationSubscriptionType;
$user->subscribeToCommentNotifications($model, NotificationSubscriptionType::Participating);
##Unsubscribing from notifications
Here's how you can unsubscribe a user from getting notified when a new comment is posted
$user->unsubscribeFromCommentNotifications($model);
To let a user unsubscribe from all notifications for all models, you can use this method:
$user->unsubscribeFromAllCommentNotifications();
##Customizing notifications
Out of the box, this package will send notifications as emails.
You can customize the content of the mail by publishing the views:
php artisan vendor:publish --tag="comments-views"
You'll find the Blade views to customize in resources/vendor/comments/.
To customize the notifications itself (to for instance add new channels) you create your own notification class that extends either Spatie\Comments\Notifications\PendingCommentNotification or Spatie\Comments\Notifications\ApprovedCommentNotification. You should specify your class name in the pending_comment or approved_comment key of the comments config file.