WinterCMS Backend Comments Plugin

Provides commenting in the backend.

Usage

This plugin provides the StudioBosco\BackendComments\Traits\Commentable Trait and a comments field widget.

To make a model commentable

1. just add the trait:

class MyModel
{
    use StudioBosco\BackendComments\Traits\Commentable;
    ...

You can set the name of the comments relation in your model if you want anything different then comments:

    /**
     * @var string Name of backend comments relation.
     */
    public $backendCommentsRelation = 'myComments';

2. Add the comments field to it's model form:

fields:
    _comments:
        type: backendcomments
        dateFormat: d-m-Y H:i:s # use your custom dateformat if required (it also accepts translation strings)
        context: # use update and preview context only as comments do not work deffered
            - update
            - preview

The "comments" field must not have the same name as the relation. By default the relation is called "comments". So use "_comments" for the field name or anything else.

Mentions

If you have the StudioBosco.BackendNotifications plugin installed backend comments allow mentions by writing @username or @first_name or @last_name or @first_and_last_name.

This will trigger an event for every mention before it is turned into a notification.

You can listen to the following event:

studiobosco.backendcomments.mention

Event arguments

• StudiBosco\BackendComments\Classes\CommentMention - $mention The mention before it triggers a notification. You can mutate this object to e.g. adjusts the notification URL.

An example on how to change the URL of the notification:

Event::listen('studiobosco.backendcomments.mention', function ($mention) {
    $commentable = $mention->comment->commentable;

    if ($commentable) {
        if ($commentable instanceof MyModel) {
            $mention->url = Backend::url('myplugin/mymodel/update/' . $commentable->id);
        }
    }
});