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Informations about the package activity
See Who's Online With This Laravel Package
With this package, you can easily see who's online and how many guests are viewing your site.
Installation
To install this package, just follow these quick few steps.
Composer
As always, pull this package through composer by opening composer.json
file and adding this within require
:
Note: If you are running Laravel 5.0 or 5.1, please require version "^1.0".
Afterward, run either composer update
.
Providers and Aliases
Next, open config/app.php
and add this to your providers array:
and this to your aliases array:
Session and Database Setup
Finally, you need to change your session configuration to use the database. Open the .env
file, which should be at the root directory of your Laravel project. Then, change your session driver to database.
If you are running L5.2, publish the default session migrations file and then migrate it by running these commands:
If you are running L5.0 or L5.1, run these commands:
Usage
This package will automatically update a user's or guest's most recent activity. To grab the most recent users and guests though, you can use the easy-to-use built-in methods.
Grabbing Most Recent Activities
Import the Activity facade at the top and then do a simple query.
The users
method will grab the most recent activities within the past 5 minutes. You can change the default timespan by specifying the minutes.
You have other methods for your convenience to grab the latest activities by seconds or even hours.
Sorting Methods
In order to sort the activities by most and least recent, just use the mostRecent
and leastRecent
methods.
In addition to this, you can sort the user's attributes by using the orderByUsers
method. For example, rather than ordering by the most recent activity, lets say you want to order by the users' name alphabetically. You can do this.
Grabbing the Guests
In order to grab the number of guests that are online, it's just as intuitive as grabbing the users. For example:
License
This package is free software distributed under the terms of the MIT license.
All versions of activity with dependencies
illuminate/session Version ~5.0
illuminate/database Version ~5.0
php Version >=5.4.0