Laravel Visitor

This is a laravel package to extract and access visitors' information such as

browser

ip

device

In this package, you can recognize online users and determine if a user is online or not

Install

Via composer

composer require shetabit/visitor

Configure

If you are using Laravel 5.5 or higher then you don't need to add the provider and alias.

# In your providers array.
'providers' => [
    ...
    Shetabit\Visitor\Provider\VisitorServiceProvider::class,
],

In your aliases array.
'aliases' => [
    ...
    'Visitor' => Shetabit\Visitor\Facade\Visitor::class,
],

Then, run the below commands to publish migrations and create tables

php artisan vendor:publish

php artisan migrate

How to use

You can access to

visitor's information

$request->visitor()

visitor()

We have the below methods to retrieve a visitor's information:

• device

  : device's name

• platform

  : platform's name

• browser

  : browser's name

• languages

  : langauge's name

• ip

  : client's ip

• request

  : the whole request inputs

• useragent

  : the whole useragent

• isOnline

  : determines if current (or given) user is online

$request->visitor()->browser(); // firefox
$request->visitor()->visit($post); // create log for post
$request->visitor()->setVisitor($user)->visit($post); // create a log which says $user has visited $post

Store Logs

You can create logs using the

visit

visitor()->visit(); // create a visit log

use

Shetabit\Visitor\Traits\Visitable

// or you can save log like the below
visitor()->visit($model);
// or like the below
$model->createVisitLog();

// you can say which user has visited the given $model
$model->createVisitLog($user);
// or like the below
visitor()->setVisitor($user)->visit($model);

Model views can be loaded using

visits

You can count model visits like the below

$model->visitLogs()->count();

unique users can be counted by their IP and by model.

// by ip
$model->visitLogs()->distinct('ip')->count('ip');

// by user's model
$model->visitLogs()->visitor()->count();

use

Shetabit\Visitor\Traits\Visitor

User

$user->visit(); // create a visit log
$user->visit($model); // create a log which says, $user has visited $model

Retrieve and Determine Online users

use

Shetabit\Visitor\Traits\Visitor

User

Then you can retrieve online users which are instance of

User

visitor()->onlineVisitors(User::class); // returns collection of online users
User::online()->get(); // another way

visitor()->isOnline($user); // determines if the given user is online
$user->isOnline(); // another way

Automatic logging

Your application can store visitor's log automatically using

LogVisits

Add the

Shetabit\Visitor\Middlewares\LogVisits

The middleware will store logs for models which has binded in router (router model binding) and has used

Shetabit\Visitor\Traits\Visitable