From 586617d7fa1e076ea8088ab4a18eae7394a42814 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ghostie <ghostie@ghostpacket.org>
Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2024 15:42:43 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] showing following and followers

---
 app/Models/User.php                 | 10 +++++++---
 resources/views/dashboard.blade.php | 10 ++++++----
 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/app/Models/User.php b/app/Models/User.php
index 7dfc5b3..e5dbb10 100644
--- a/app/Models/User.php
+++ b/app/Models/User.php
@@ -62,11 +62,15 @@ class User extends Authenticatable
         return $this->belongsToMany(User::class, "followers", "user_id", "follower_id");
     }
 
+    // store the following
+    public function following()
+    {
+        return $this->belongsToMany(User::class, "followers", "follower_id", "user_id");
+    }
+
     // check if a user already follows another user
-    public function following(User $user)
+    public function is_following(User $user)
     {
         return $this->followers->contains($user->id);
     }
-
-    // store the following
 }
diff --git a/resources/views/dashboard.blade.php b/resources/views/dashboard.blade.php
index 6b1adcc..e4a09dd 100644
--- a/resources/views/dashboard.blade.php
+++ b/resources/views/dashboard.blade.php
@@ -31,12 +31,14 @@
                 </div>
 
                 <p class="text-gray-800 text-sm mb-3 font-bold mt-5">
-                    0
-                    <span class="font-normal">Followers</span>
+                    {{ $user->followers->count() }}
+                    <span class="font-normal">
+                        @choice('follower|followers', $user->followers->count())
+                    </span>
                 </p>
 
                 <p class="text-gray-800 text-sm mb-3 font-bold">
-                    0
+                    {{ $user->following->count() }}
                     <span class="font-normal">Following</span>
                 </p>
 
@@ -47,7 +49,7 @@
 
                 @auth
                     @if ($user->id !== auth()->user()->id)
-                        @if (!$user->following(auth()->user()))
+                        @if (!$user->is_following(auth()->user()))
                             <form action="{{ route('users.follow', $user) }}" method="POST">
                                 @csrf
                                 <input type="submit"