User Follow System Laravel 9 Tutorial

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This article is focused on User Follow System Laravel 9 Tutorial. We will look at example of Laravel 9 - Follow Unfollow System Example. This post will give you simple example of How to create follow unfollow functionality in laravel 9?. Here you will learn follow and unfollow using single button with jquery & ajax by laravel 9 example. you will do the following things for laravel 9 follow and unfollow Code Example.

you will do the following things for laravel 9 follow and unfollow Code Example.

Laravel 9 Follow Unfollow Example Using Ajax Example

Just follow a few step and you will get layout like as bellow preview and also you can download script from bellow link.

Let us begin the tutorial by installing a new laravel application. if you have already created the project, then skip following step.

composer create-project laravel/laravel example-app

Now we need to install laravel-follow package for follow unfollow system. So Open your terminal and run the bellow command.

composer require overtrue/laravel-follow -vvv

Now open the config/app.php file and add service provider and alias.

'providers' => [

    Overtrue\LaravelFollow\FollowServiceProvider::class,

],

To publish the migrations file run bellow command

php artisan vendor:publish --provider='Overtrue\LaravelFollow\FollowServiceProvider' --tag="migrations"

As optional if you want to modify the default configuration, you can publish the configuration file:

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Overtrue\LaravelFollow\FollowServiceProvider" --tag="config"

Then just migrate it by using the following command:

php artisan migrate

In this step, we require to create authentication of Laravel 9, so laravel provides an artisan command to create authentication that way we don't require to create a route and controller for login and registration. so run bellow command:

php artisan make:auth

In this step, we will create some dummy users for testing, so we will create dummy users using the formate factory. so run the below command:

php artisan tinker
factory(App\User::class, 100)->create();

here we need to update the User model. we need to use the CanLike trait in the User model. So let's update as bellow code.

namespace App;

use Illuminate\Notifications\Notifiable;
use Illuminate\Foundation\Auth\User as Authenticatable;
use Overtrue\LaravelFollow\Traits\CanFollow;
use Overtrue\LaravelFollow\Traits\CanBeFollowed;


class User extends Authenticatable
{
    use Notifiable, CanFollow, CanBeFollowed; //See we used CanFollow and CanBeFollowed Traits

    protected $fillable = [
        'name', 'email', 'password',
    ];

    protected $hidden = [
        'password', 'remember_token',
    ];
}

In this step, we will create routes for follow, unfollow system in Laravel. So we require to create the following route in the web.php file.

Route::get('users', 'HomeController@users')->name('users');
Route::get('user/{id}', 'HomeController@user')->name('user.view');
Route::post('follow', 'HomeController@follwUserRequest')->name('follow');

now in HomeController, we will add three new method users(), user() and ajaxRequest(). so let's see HomeController like as bellow:

namespace App\Http\Controllers;

use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use App\User;


class HomeController extends Controller
{
    
    public function __construct()
    {
        $this->middleware('auth');
    }

    public function index()
    {
        return view('home');
    }

    public function users()
    {
        $users = User::get();
        return view('users', compact('users'));
    }

    public function user($id)
    {
        $user = User::find($id);
        return view('usersView', compact('user'));
    }

    public function follwUserRequest(Request $request){


        $user = User::find($request->user_id);
        $response = auth()->user()->toggleFollow($user);


        return response()->json(['success'=>$response]);
    }
}

Now in this file, we will need to create userList.blade.php, users.blade.php, and usersView.blade.php files and custom.js file. So let's create both files.

@extends('layouts.app')

@section('content')
<script src="{{ asset('js/custom.js') }}" defer></script>

<div class="container">
    <div class="row justify-content-center">
        <div class="col-md-12">
            <div class="card">
                <div class="card-header">List of Users- Codechief.org</div>


                <div class="card-body">
                    <div class="row pl-5">
                        @include('userList', ['users'=>$users])
                    </div>
                </div>
            </div>
        </div>
    </div>
</div>
@endsection 

@extends('layouts.app')

@section('content')
<script src="{{ asset('js/custom.js') }}" defer></script>

<div class="container">
    <div class="row justify-content-center">
        <div class="col-md-12">
            <div class="card">
                <div class="card-header">
                    {{ $user->name }}
                    <br/>
                    <small>
                        <strong>Website:</strong> Codechief.org, 
                        <strong>Email: </strong>{{ $user->email }}
                    </small>
                </div>

                <div class="card-body">
                    <nav>
                      <div class="nav nav-tabs" id="nav-tab" role="tablist">
                        <a class="nav-item nav-link active" id="nav-home-tab" data-toggle="tab" href="#followers" role="tab" aria-controls="nav-home" aria-selected="true">Followers <span class="badge badge-primary">{{ $user->followers()->get()->count() }}</span></a>
                        <a class="nav-item nav-link" id="nav-profile-tab" data-toggle="tab" href="#following" role="tab" aria-controls="nav-profile" aria-selected="false">Following <span class="badge badge-primary">{{ $user->followings()->get()->count() }}</span></a>
                      </div>
                    </nav>
                    <div class="tab-content" id="nav-tabContent">
                      <div class="tab-pane fade show active" id="followers" role="tabpanel" aria-labelledby="nav-home-tab">
                        <div class="row pl-5">
                            @include('userList', ['users'=>$user->followers()->get()])
                        </div>
                      </div>
                      <div class="tab-pane fade" id="following" role="tabpanel" aria-labelledby="nav-profile-tab">
                        <div class="row pl-5">
                            @include('userList', ['users'=>$user->followings()->get()])
                        </div>
                      </div>
                    </div>
                </div>
            </div>
        </div>
    </div>
</div>
@endsection 

 @if($users->count())
    @foreach($users as $user)
        <div class="col-2 profile-box border p-1 rounded text-center bg-light mr-4 mt-3">
            <img src="https://www.codechief.org/user/img/user.jpg" style="height: 50px; width: 50px; border-radius: 50%;" class="img-responsive">
            <h5 class="m-0"><a href="{{ route('user.view', $user->id) }}"><strong>{{ $user->name }}</strong></a></h5>
            <p class="mb-2">
                <small>Following: <span class="badge badge-primary">{{ $user->followings()->get()->count() }}</span></small>
                <small>Followers: <span class="badge badge-primary tl-follower">{{ $user->followers()->get()->count() }}</span></small>
            </p>
            <button class="btn btn-info btn-sm action-follow" data-id="{{ $user->id }}"><strong>
            @if(auth()->user()->isFollowing($user))
                UnFollow
            @else
                Follow
            @endif
            </strong></button>
        </div>
    @endforeach
@endif 

$(document).ready(function() {     

    $.ajaxSetup({
        headers: {
            'X-CSRF-TOKEN': $('meta[name="csrf-token"]').attr('content')
        }
    });

    $('.action-follow').click(function(){    
        var user_id = $(this).data('id');
        var cObj = $(this);
        var c = $(this).parent("div").find(".tl-follower").text();

        $.ajax({
           type:'POST',
           url:'/follow',
           data:{user_id:user_id},
           success:function(data){
              console.log(data.success);
              if(jQuery.isEmptyObject(data.success.attached)){
                cObj.find("strong").text("Follow");
                cObj.parent("div").find(".tl-follower").text(parseInt(c)-1);
              }else{
                cObj.find("strong").text("UnFollow");
                cObj.parent("div").find(".tl-follower").text(parseInt(c)+1);
              }
           }
        });
    });      

}); 

It will help you...