Chaining events in Laravel

Peter Hrobar
5 min readMay 16, 2023
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The Laravel event management system provides a flexible and powerful mechanism for implementing event-driven architecture in your application. It promotes decoupling, modularity, reusability, and testability, while allowing for easy extensibility and adaptability.

In Laravel, an event is a class that represents a specific occurrence or action that takes place within your application.

Events serve as a way to notify other parts of your application when something important or significant happens.

Events allow for a decoupled and flexible architecture by separating the logic that triggers an event from the logic that handles the event. This means that different components of your application can be loosely coupled and unaware of each other, making it easier to add or remove functionality without directly modifying existing code.

When an event is fired in Laravel, it triggers a sequence of actions. These actions can include executing event listeners, sending notifications, updating data, logging, or any other logic you define.

To create an event run the following artisan command:

php artisan make:event CableStatusChanged

This command generates an event class file in the app/Events directory. You can then define properties and methods within this…

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