# Registering Module Events

Your module may contain events and event listeners. You can create these classes manually, or with the following artisan commands:

Generate an event:

php artisan module:make-event BlogPostWasUpdatedEvent Blog

Generate an event listener:

php artisan module:make-listener NotifyAdminOfNewPostListener Blog

Once those are create you need to register them in laravel. This can be done in 2 ways:

Manually registering events

Register events manually in your module service provider register method:

$this->app['events']->listen(BlogPostWasUpdatedEvent::class, NotifyAdminOfNewPostListener::class);

Creating an EventServiceProvider

Once you have multiple events, you might find it easier to have all events and their listeners in a dedicated service provider. This is what the EventServiceProvider is for.

Create a new class called for instance EventServiceProvider in the Modules/Blog/Providers folder (Blog being an example name).

This class needs to look like this:

<?php

namespace Modules\Blog\App\Providers;

use Illuminate\Foundation\Support\Providers\EventServiceProvider as ServiceProvider;

class EventServiceProvider extends ServiceProvider
{
    protected $listen = [];
}

Don't forget to load this service provider in the register method of the ModuleServiceProvider class.

$this->app->register(EventServiceProvider::class);

This is now like the regular EventServiceProvider in the app/ namespace. In our example the listen property will look like this:

<?php

namespace Modules\Blog\App\Events;

use Illuminate\Foundation\Support\Providers\EventServiceProvider as ServiceProvider;

class EventServiceProvider extends ServiceProvider
{
    protected $listen = [
        BlogPostWasUpdatedEvent::class => [
            NotifyAdminOfNewPostListener::class,
        ],
    ];
}