Hi! This is what I'll do, I'll create three models. Blog, Post (I like to call it as post instead of page) and Comment. Then I'll create one-to-many relationships.

Blog one-to-many Post
Post one-to-many Comment

In your comments table you could just add likes and reply_id field.

I hope this helps.

sherwinncnadev said:

Hi! This is what I'll do, I'll create three models. Blog, Post (I like to call it as post instead of page) and Comment. Then I'll create one-to-many relationships.

Blog one-to-many Post
Post one-to-many Comment

In your comments table you could just add likes and reply_id field.

I hope this helps.

Hello, thank you for your reply.

This is how I actually implemented it and it works perfectly. However, if I want to format the comments in the HTML, I need to have it chunked by replies. Because, when a comment is a reply to another comment, the reply should be displayed under the "main" comment. How would you be doing this?

I hope this makes sense.

The first solution that popped in my head is you could create a recursive function that accepts an eloquent collection of comments and what it'll do is loop through it all and check if a comment has a reply. If it has a reply call the function again. I suggest you should do a paging for comments since this approach will slow your website if it's handling a lot of comments.