---
title: "Recipes — Events for Laravel | Roundly"
description: "Guests without accounts, team organizers with teams-for-laravel, custom fields, event discussion, post-event reviews and an overbooking ratio."
url: https://roundly-consulting.com/open-source/docs/events-for-laravel/recipes
language: en
---

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# Recipes

Events for Laravel works on its own. These recipes plug in other Roundly packages, each one optional.

## Guests without accounts

Any model can attend. Give guests their own model — with the same key type as your users — make it notifiable by mail and list it as an attendee alias:

```php
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
use Illuminate\Notifications\Notifiable;
use RoundlyConsulting\Events\Concerns\AttendsEvents;

final class Guest extends Model
{
    use AttendsEvents;
    use Notifiable;

    protected $fillable = ['name', 'email'];

    public function routeNotificationForMail(): string
    {
        return $this->email;
    }
}

// config/events.php
'attendees' => ['user' => App\Models\User::class, 'guest' => App\Models\Guest::class],

$guest = Guest::firstOrCreate(['email' => $request->string('email')], ['name' => $request->string('name')]);
Events::for($event)->rsvp($guest)->going();
```

A guest is never an Authenticatable, so it answers invitations by token alone; the invitee check applies to user accounts only. A model without notification routes still attends — it just receives no notices.

## Team organizers

With [Teams for Laravel](https://roundly-consulting.com/open-source/docs/teams-for-laravel.md), a team organizes events and every member manages them — membership in PHP and in SQL, so the policy and managedBy() agree:

```php
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Builder;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
use RoundlyConsulting\Events\Concerns\OrganizesEvents;
use RoundlyConsulting\Events\Contracts\Organizer;
use RoundlyConsulting\Teams\Models\Team as BaseTeam;

final class Team extends BaseTeam implements Organizer
{
    use OrganizesEvents;

    public function allowsEventManagementBy(Model $user): bool
    {
        return $this->members()->where('member_type', $user->getMorphClass())->where('member_id', $user->getKey())->exists();
    }

    public function scopeManagingEventsFor(Builder $query, Model $user): void
    {
        $query->whereHas('members', fn (Builder $members) => $members
            ->where('member_type', $user->getMorphClass())->where('member_id', $user->getKey()));
    }
}
// config/teams.php: 'models' => ['team' => App\Models\Team::class]
// config/events.php: 'organizers' => ['user' => User::class, 'team' => App\Models\Team::class]
```

Narrow it to a role (hasTeamRole()) by adding the condition to both methods.

## Custom fields

Swap the event model and give it typed custom fields from [Attributes for Laravel](https://roundly-consulting.com/open-source/docs/attributes-for-laravel.md):

```php
use RoundlyConsulting\Attributes\Contracts\HasAttributes as HasAttributesContract;
use RoundlyConsulting\Attributes\Facades\Attributes;
use RoundlyConsulting\Attributes\Traits\HasAttributes;

final class Event extends \RoundlyConsulting\Events\Models\Event implements HasAttributesContract
{
    use HasAttributes;
}
// config/events.php: 'models' => ['event' => App\Models\Event::class]

// define the field once (attributes-for-laravel's Attributes::define()), then:
Attributes::for($event)->set('dress_code', 'smart casual');
```

## Event discussion

A discussion under each event with [Comments for Laravel](https://roundly-consulting.com/open-source/docs/comments-for-laravel.md):

```php
use RoundlyConsulting\Comments\Facades\Comments;
use RoundlyConsulting\Comments\Traits\HasComments;

final class Event extends \RoundlyConsulting\Events\Models\Event
{
    use HasComments;
}
// config/events.php: 'models' => ['event' => App\Models\Event::class]

Comments::on($event)->as($user)->body('Is there parking nearby?')->post();
```

Gate who may comment with the event’s own abilities — view, or rsvp for attendees only.

## Reviews after the event

Reviews from attendees after the event, with [Reviews for Laravel](https://roundly-consulting.com/open-source/docs/reviews-for-laravel.md):

```php
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Event as EventBus;   // your Event model shadows Laravel's facade name
use RoundlyConsulting\Events\Enums\EventPhase;
use RoundlyConsulting\Events\Events\EventCompleted;
use RoundlyConsulting\Events\Facades\Events;
use RoundlyConsulting\Reviews\Concerns\HasReviews;
use RoundlyConsulting\Reviews\Facades\Reviews;

final class Event extends \RoundlyConsulting\Events\Models\Event
{
    use HasReviews;
}
// config/events.php: 'models' => ['event' => App\Models\Event::class]

EventBus::listen(EventCompleted::class, function (EventCompleted $completed): void {
    $attendees = Events::for($completed->event)->attendees()->checkedIn();   // invite them to review
});

if ($user->isGoingTo($event) && $event->phase === EventPhase::Completed) {
    Reviews::for($event)->by($user)->rating(5)->content('Great night')->verified()->create();
}
```

## An overbooking ratio for free events

No-shows are common at free events. Keep the real room size in your own column and give the event a larger capacity — the waitlist, counters and check-in work unchanged:

```php
$room = 100;
Events::make('Free meetup')->organizedBy($user)->capacity((int) floor($room * 1.2))->tier('Free entry')->publish();
```

Check-in tells you who actually came (attendees()->checkedIn()); adjust the ratio per series.

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