Friendship Status about laravel-friendships

[TechTailor]

Hey,

You can use the getAllFriendships() method which returns all types of friendships.

You can then get the status of the friendship (0=Pending, 1=Accepted, 2=Denied, 3=Blocked) and eager load the sender/recipient details (username, email, etc) and the filter through the collection to display the results as desired.

A very basic way of testing the same would be -

$user = Auth::user();
$friends = $user->getAllFriendships(); 
foreach($friends as $friend)
{
    echo 'username = ' . $friend->sender->username; (or $friend->recipient->username)
	
    if($friend->status == 0)
    	echo 'status = PENDING';
    else if($friend->status == 1)
    	echo 'status = ACCEPTED';
    else if($friend->status == 2)
    	echo 'status = DENIED';
    else if($friend->status == 3)
    	echo 'status = BLOCKED';

}

Now there is a limitation here which unfortunately we cannot get fixed since it seems this package is no longer being maintained (or accepting PR's) is that the methods will return the details of the requesting user itself which leads to a mess and confusion between friend requests sent and friend requests received by the user.

Hence why I personally whenever in use of this package, run multiple loops i.e., instead of using getAllFriendships(), I make use of the combination of getAcceptedFriendships(), getDeniedFriendships(), getBlockedFriendships(), etc. (not very efficient I know, but thats what I got to work with until I can fix this with tests).

If anyone has a better way to of doing it, please share here or better create a PR.

Hope this helps.

[elephantux]

Thanks @TechTailor

I was looking for exactly this: 0=Pending, 1=Accepted, 2=Denied, 3=Blocked