Customization

#Custom policy

You can define a custom policy for the Comment model to control who can create, update, reply, or delete comments. First, create a new policy class (for example, App\Policies\CommentPolicy) and extend the default policy:

namespace App\Policies;

use Tilto\Commentable\Contracts\Commenter;
use Tilto\Commentable\Models\Comment;
use Tilto\Commentable\Policies\CommentPolicy as CommentablePolicy;

class CommentPolicy extends CommentablePolicy
{
    public function create(Commenter $user): bool
    {
        // ...
    }

    public function update(Commenter $user, Comment $comment): bool
    {
        // ...
    }

    public function reply(Commenter $user, Comment $comment): bool
    {
        // ...
    }

    public function delete(Commenter $user, Comment $comment): bool
    {
        // ...
    }
}

Then, update the comment.policy value in your config/commentable.php file to point to your new policy:

'comment' => [
    'model' => Tilto\Commentable\Models\Comment::class,
    'policy' => App\Policies\CommentPolicy::class,
],

This allows you to fully customize comment permissions to fit your application's requirements.

#Listening for comment creation events

To perform actions when a comment is created, listen for the CommentCreatedEvent in your event listener. This allows you to trigger notifications, logging, or other custom logic whenever a new comment is added.

Here's an example of how to set up a listener for the event:

use Tilto\Commentable\Events\CommentCreatedEvent;

class NotifyOnCommentCreated
{
    public function handle(CommentCreatedEvent $event): void
    {
        // Access the created comment:
        $comment = $event->comment;

        // Add your custom logic here, e.g., send a notification
    }
}

If you don't have event auto-discovery turned on in Laravel, you will need to manually register your listener within your EventServiceProvider:

protected $listen = [
    CommentCreatedEvent::class => [
        NotifyOnCommentCreated::class,
    ],
];