ActivityLog
A simple and clean Laravel 5 activity logger for monitoring user activity on a website or web application.
Installation
Basic installation, service provider registration, and aliasing:
To install ActivityLog, make sure "regulus/activity-log" has been added to Laravel 5's composer.json
file.
"require": {
"regulus/activity-log": "0.6.*"
},
Then run php composer.phar update
from the command line. Composer will install the ActivityLog package. Now, all you have to do is register the service provider and set up ActivityLog's alias. In app/config/app.php
, add this to the providers
array:
Regulus\ActivityLog\ActivityLogServiceProvider::class,
And add this to the aliases
array:
'Activity' => Regulus\ActivityLog\Models\Activity::class,
Publishing migrations and configuration:
To publish this package's configuration and migrations, run this from the command line:
php artisan vendor:publish
You will now be able to edit the config file in config/log.php
if you wish to customize the configuration of ActivityLog.
Note: Migrations are only published; remember to run them when ready.
To run migration to create ActivityLog's table, run this from the command line:
php artisan migrate
Basic Usage
Logging user activity:
Activity::log([
'contentId' => $user->id,
'contentType' => 'User',
'action' => 'Create',
'description' => 'Created a User',
'details' => 'Username: '.$user->username,
'updated' => (bool) $id,
]);
The above code will log an activity for the currently logged in user. The IP address will automatically be saved as well and the developer
flag will be set if the user has a developer
session variable set to true
. This can be used to differentiate activities between the developer and the website administrator. The updated
boolean, if set to true
, will replace all instances of "Create" or "Add" with "Update" in the description
and details
fields.
Advanced Usage
As of version 0.6.0
, ActivityLog has built in the ability to dynamically create descriptions based on language keys in Laravel's language files. If you would like to enable this feature without having to set language_key
to true
when you use the log()
function, change defaults.language_key
to true
in the config file (it is not present by default so you will have to add it).
Logging user activity with language keys:
Activity::log([
'contentType' => 'Record',
'description' => [
'created_items', [ // "activity-log::descriptions.created_items" is ":user created :number :items."
'number' => 2,
'items' => 'SPL|labels.record', // "labels.record" in this example has a string of "Record|Records"
],
],
'details' => [
'record',
'This is Some Kind of Record',
],
'data' => [
'category' => 'Content',
],
]);
echo $activity->getDescription(); // may output "Unknown User created 2 records."
echo $activity->getDetails(); // may output "Record: This is Some Kind of Record"
echo $activity->getData('category'); // will output "Content"
In the example above, the items
replacement variable in the description has a number of specified properties before the |
character which separates them from the actual language variable. The available properties are as follows:
S - Return the "singular" string (in the case of "labels.record", "Record")
P - Return the "plural" string (in the case of "labels.record", "Records")
A - Prepend the string with "a" or "an" (example: "a record" instead of just "record")
L - Convert the string to lowercase
In our example above, you will see both singular ("S") and plural ("P") are being used. When both are used, the description builder looks for a number
replacement variable to decide whether the singular or plural form should be used.
Note: The
user
replacement variable is automatically set based on the record's user ID.
Getting Linked Content
Set up the content_types
config array like the following example:
'item' => [
'uri' => 'view/:id',
'subdomain' => 'items',
'model' => 'App\Models\Item',
],
You can use getContentItem()
to get the item based on the specified model (assuming, in the case of the above specified example, that your content type is set to "Item"). You can also use getUrl()
to get the URL of the content item or getLinkedDescription()
to get a linked description for the item.
Displaying Action Icons
Display an action icon based on config setup:
echo $activity->getIconMarkup();
You can also use getIcon()
to get just the icon class from which to build your own icon markup.
来自 https://github.com/Regulus343/ActivityLog