mokhlesurrahman / watchable

Watchable

Watchable is a Laravel package where you can easily pick up laravel model event and activity log inside your application.

use Shipu\Watchable\Traits\WatchableTrait;

onModelCreating
onModelCreated
onModelUpdating
onModelUpdated

The Package stores all activity in the activity_logs table. Here's a demo of how you can use it:

activity()->log('Look, I logged something');

You can retrieve all activity using the Shipu\Watchable\Models\Activity model.

Activity::all();

Here's a more advanced example:

activity()
   ->on($anEloquentModel)
   ->data($storeWhatYouWantTo)
   ->log('Look, I logged something');
   
$lastLoggedActivity = Activity::all()->last();

$lastLoggedActivity->model; //returns an instance of an eloquent model
$lastLoggedActivity->causer; //returns an instance of your user model
$lastLoggedActivity->remarks; //returns 'Look, I logged something'

Here's an example on event logging.

$user->name = 'updated name';
$user->save();

//updating the newsItem will cause the logging of an activity
$activity = Activity::all()->last();

$activity->remarks; //returns 'User Updated'
$activity->model; //returns the instance of NewsItem that was created

Calling $activity->changes will return this array:

[
   'new' => [
        'name' => 'updated name',
        'text' => 'Lorum',
    ],
    'old' => [
        'name' => 'original name',
        'text' => 'Lorum',
    ],
];

Installation

You can install the package via composer:

composer require shipu/watchable

You can optionally publish the config file with:

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Shipu\Watchable\WatchableServiceProvider" --tag="shipu-watchable-config"

This is the contents of the published config file:

return [
    'audit_columns' => [
        'creator_column' => 'creator',
        'editor_column' => 'editor',
        'default_active' => false,
    ],
    'activity_log' => [
        'model' => \Shipu\Watchable\Models\Activity::class
    ]
];

You can publish the migration with:

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Shipu\Watchable\WatchableServiceProvider" --tag="shipu-watchable-migrations"

Note: The default migration assumes you are using integers for your model IDs. If you are using UUIDs, or some other format, adjust the format of the subject_id and causer_id fields in the published migration before continuing.

After publishing the migration you can create the activity_logs table by running the migrations:

php artisan migrate