FilaChat

Filachat is a plugin for adding real-time customer support chat to your application. It provides tools for both customer and agent chat interfaces, with features for managing and maintaining conversations. You can also disable role constraints to let users chat with each other without restrictions.

Important

This plugin has two roles: agent and user. When role restrictions are enabled, agents cannot chat with each other, and users cannot chat with each other. Only agents and users can chat with each other, and vice versa. If role restrictions are disabled, agents and users can freely chat with one another without any restrictions.

Caution

This plugin has not been tested in a production environment. Use it at your own risk.

Installation

You can install the package via composer:

composer require jaocero/filachat

Run the following command to install FilaChat, which will take care of all migrations and configurations.

php artisan filachat:install

You can view the full content of the config file here: config/filachat.php

Next, execute the following command to generate assets in your public folder.

php artisan filament:assets

Note

This step is optional if you want to enable role restrictions. You only need to create an agent if you want to set up role-based chat support.

When you first install this plugin, you won’t have any agents set up yet. Agents are like admins who can provide chat support to your customers or users.

To create an agent, use the command below:

php artisan filachat:agent-create

Next, you need to apply the HasFilaChat trait to your models, whether it’s the agent model or the user model.

<?php

//...
use JaOcero\FilaChat\Traits\HasFilaChat;
//...
class User extends Authenticatable
{
    //...
    use HasFilaChat;
    //...
}

To integrate this plugin into your FilamentPHP application, you need to apply a custom theme.

Custom Theme Installation Filament Docs

Then add the plugin's views to your tailwind.config.js file.

content: [
    ...
    './vendor/jaocero/filachat/resources/views/**/**/*.blade.php',
    ...
]

Usage

You can now use this plugin and add it to your FilamentPHP panel provider.

<?php
//...
use JaOcero\FilaChat\FilaChatPlugin;
//..
class AdminPanelProvider extends PanelProvider
{
    //...
    public function panel(Panel $panel): Panel
    {
        return $panel
            //...
            ->plugins([
                FilaChatPlugin::make()
            ]);
    }

    //...
}

Important

To use this plugin, you need to have Laravel Reverb installed and enable FilamentPHP broadcasting in your application.

For the final step, you need to set up Laravel Reverb for your application. See Reverb for more details. After that, enable broadcasting for your FilamentPHP application by following this guide by Laravel Daily.

Then everytime you start your application in your local environment, you will need to run the following command to enable broadcasting:

php artisan reverb:start

When using file uploads, Livewire has a default file size limit of 12 MB. To change this limit, you need to publish the Livewire configuration file using the command php artisan livewire:publish --config and then adjust the rule.

<?php

return [
    //...
    'temporary_file_upload' => [
        'rules' => 'max:20000',       // Example: ['file', 'mimes:png,jpg']  | Default: ['required', 'file', 'max:12288'] (12MB)
    ],
    //...
];

You also need to adjust the post_max_size and upload_max_filesize settings in your php.ini file.

post_max_size = 20MB
upload_max_filesize = 20MB

Testing

composer test

Changelog

Please see CHANGELOG for more information on what has changed recently.

Contributing

Please see CONTRIBUTING for details.

Security Vulnerabilities

Please review our security policy on how to report security vulnerabilities.

Credits

• Jay-Are Ocero
• All Contributors

License

The MIT License (MIT). Please see License File for more information.