Miscellaneous options

The most powerful way to customize the components, is by publishing the views and editing them.

On this page, we'll list various options and ideas.

##Using another avatar provider

By default, when your commenting user doesn't have an avatar, we'll use Gravatar as a fallback.

To use another avatar provider, publish the views, and modify the avatar.blade.php view.

##Hiding all avatars

If you don't want to show any avatars, you can add the config.ui.show_avatars option to the comments config file

// config/comments

return [
    // other options...
    
    'ui' => [
        'show_avatars' => false,
    ],
];

You can also use the hide-avatars attribute on the comments component.

<livewire:comments :model="$post" hide-avatars />

##Disable autoDownloadFontawesome of EasyMDE

By default, the Livewire component will autoload the fontawesome icons on the version predifined by EasyMDE. Because this can conflict with your working version of fontawesome you can disable this feature en load the icons yourself. If you want to disable this, you can add the config.ui.autoload_fontawesome option to the comments config file

// config/comments

return [
    // other options...
    
    'ui' => [
        'autoload_fontawesome' => false,
    ],
];

##Choosing an editor

By default, we'll use SimpleMDE to create and edit comments. Should you want to use a plan textarea, add this to the comments.php config file.

// config/comments

return [
    // other options...
    
    'ui' => [
        'editor' => 'comments::editors.textarea',
    ],
];

##Making the comments read only

To disable creating, editing, and deleting comments on component, use read-only attribute.

<livewire:comments :model="$post" read-only />

This can be handy to have fine-grained control over which user should be able to post comments for a certain model. Let's assume that you've implemented a method canPostComment on your used model that will return true if the user is allowed to comment on a given $post

@if(auth()->user()->canPostComment($post))
    <livewire:comments :model="$post" />
@else
    <livewire:comments :model="$post" read-only />
    
    You are not allow to post new comments on this post.
@endif

##Displaying the newest comments first

By default, the components show the oldest comments first. If you want to show the newest comments first, pass the newest-first attribute.

<livewire:comments :model="$post" newest-first />

##Customizing the "No comments yet text"

You can customize that text that displayed when there are no comments yet but publishing the translations and editing the no_comments_yet yet key in the comments language file.

You can also customize this text per component by passing in a string to the no-comments-text prop.

<livewire:comments :model="$post" no-comments-text="What are your thoughts on this?" />

##Only allow top level comments

By default, the Livewire components will allow two levels of comments. A comment on a comment is called a reply. If you want to disable replies, pass the no-replies attribute.

<livewire:comments :model="$post" no-replies />