Installation

• Prerequisites
• Install Ajax Comment System
• Clone Ajax Comment System Demo
• Requirements and Browser Support

Prerequisites

This guide assumes that you already know how to install and configure Laravel.

Install Ajax Comment System

1. In your app directory, create a comments folder and extract all the files from the archive you have downloaded from CodeCanyon.

2. Edit your composer.json file and add the following line to the psr-4 autoload:

   "Hazzard\\Comments\\": "app/comments/src/"

   And this one to your dependencies (require):

   "s9e/text-formatter": "^0.4"

   In your terminal/console run composer install.

3. Add Hazzard\Comments\CommentsServiceProvider::class to your providers array in config/app.php and run:

   php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Hazzard\Comments\CommentsServiceProvider"

   This command will publish the configuration file (config/comments.php), the assets folder (public/vendor/comments) and the database migrations *.
   

   Notice: The script assumes that you have already have the users table installed.

4. Finally, run:

   php artisan migrate

5. Head over to the Usage section to get started.

* The migrations will add 3 tables comments, comment_votes, comment_options and a role field to your users table. This field will be used to determine if the the authenticated user is an admin or a regular user.

Notice: If your app already has another method to determine that, then delete the ..._add_users_role_column.php migration from the database/migrations directory.

Clone Ajax Comment System Demo

You can clone the demo version from the GitHub repository. Run:

git clone https://github.com/hazzardweb/ajax-comment-system-laravel-demo.git

Now you can continue with the normal installation. This demo requires you to have reCAPTCHA configured.

Requirements and Browser Support

Laravel Comments requires Laravel >= 5.1.9 and supports the following browsers (desktop and mobile): Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Safari MS Edge and IE9+.