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61. Preventing parent posts from being deleted
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01. Introduction and demo
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02. Getting set up
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03. Modifying registration for usernames
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04. Figuring out the forum layout
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05. Creating and listing topics
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06. Basic discussion listing
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07. Pinning discussions
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08. Tackling pagination in Inertia
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09. Customising pagination text in Laravel
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10. Showing a discussion
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11. Setting up discussion posts
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12. Listing through discussion posts
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13. Adding more data to posts
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14. Adding pagination to posts
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15. Adding a post preview to discussions
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16. Adding the last reply to discussions
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17. Outputting discussion participants
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18. Limiting participants in the UI
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19. Ordering discussions by last post
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20. Handling deleted users
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21. Counting replies
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22. Building our first filter
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23. Highlighting current filters, and merging with pagination
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24. Adding auth specific filters
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25. Adding the topic filter
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26. Scaffolding the new discussion form
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27. Toggling the create discussion form
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28. Keeping form state
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29. Storing a new discussion
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30. Discussion validation and authorization
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31. Generating markdown for posts
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32. Toggling the markdown preview
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33. Fetching and displaying markdown
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34. Adding a markdown shortcut toolbar
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35. Dealing with SVG icons
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36. Creating the reply form
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37. Basic Inertia permission checking
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38. Creating replies to discussions
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39. Jumping to posts
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40. Automatically scrolling to posts
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41. Toggling post editing
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42. Editing posts
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43. Deleting posts
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44. Deleting discussions
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45. Setting up for best answers
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46. Toggling the best discussion answer
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47. Solved and unsolved filters
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48. Indexing discussions for search
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49. Searching discussions
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50. Debouncing search
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51. Adding mentionable functionality to forms
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52. Indexing users for mentioning
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53. Hooking up users for mentions
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54. Detecting and storing mentioned users
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55. Adding the mentioned filter
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56. Adding mentions to the markdown toolbar
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57. Adding mentions to the reply form
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58. Fixing up some unauthenticated state
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59. Fixing up post scrolling
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60. Reviewing SSR (Server-side rendering)
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61. Preventing parent posts from being deleted
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62. Improving solution marking
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Transcript
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Okay let's go ahead and look at an issue that we saw earlier and that is the
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inability to delete an original post from a discussion. So at the moment if we head over to any of the discussions that we've created here we can actually delete the original post from this which kind of doesn't make sense we want this whole thing here to kind of be attached together so we can't delete the
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original post. If we wanted to delete the overall discussion we could use this button just here. So we're really simply going to go ahead and update our authorization rule for our post just to make sure it does not belong to a discussion and we're also going to keep out our debug bar just to make sure we're
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not making way too many queries here. Okay so I'm gonna go ahead and start a new discussion just to test this out so let's say delete test and we'll say delete test body let's go ahead and hook this up to a topic and here it is. So we want to get rid of this. I'm gonna go ahead and reply and just say here is a
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reply and there we go. So let's head over and figure out how we are going to do this. So if we go over to our post policy we've got this delete method just here. If we look at our database really quickly over in post we actually know what a parent post is because we have this parent ID is set to null if that's
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the case. So actually we don't really need to go back and check if this is the first post in a discussion by any kind of relationship we just want to add a condition to what we've already got. So we're gonna say that it needs to belong to the user which of course is really important and the post is not a parent.
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Now I have a feeling we created a method out earlier we actually didn't. I think just doing this manually in here would be fine. So let's go ahead and say post parent ID and we want to make sure that this is null. So let's go ahead and wrap that on is null and to be honest that should be pretty much it. If we head over
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now and give this a refresh yeah just making sure that that isn't null. There we go. So we can delete any of the posts inside this discussion now but we don't see the delete link for the original post and of course we have our authorization rules in place for deleting posts anyway so even if we try
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to get around this it just would not work we wouldn't be able to perform that action. So there we go that's a really quick fix I'm just gonna head over to the post destroy controller and yeah we didn't add a comment in here so that's fine and there we go very quick fix by updating our authorization.
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Overview
Ready to build a forum with Inertia and Laravel?
Why a forum? A forum touches a whole load of concepts that you'll use throughout your development career – particularly on the client-side, where we'll be doing most of the heavy lifting.
So, let's build a clean, modern forum with features like markdown support, code highlighting, advanced filtering, user mentions, full-text search, the ability to mark best answers, and more.
Alex Garrett-Smith
Hey, I'm the founder of Codecourse!
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