Laravel Visitor

this is a laravel package to extract and access visitors' information such as browser, ip, device and etc.

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' => [
    ...
    'Payment' => Shetabit\Visitor\Facade\Visitor::class,
],

How to use

you can access to visitor's information using $request->visitor() in your controllers , and you can access to the visitor's information using visitor() helper function any where.

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

Store Logs

you can create logs using the visit method like the below

visitor()->visit();

use Shetabit\Visitor\Traits\Visitable trait in your models, then you can save visit's log for your models like the below

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

model views can be loaded using visits relation. you can count model visits like the below

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

Automatic loging

your application can store visitor's log automatically using LogVisits middleware.

add the Shetabit\Visitor\Middlewares\LogVisits middleware if you want to save logs automatically.

the middleware will store logs for models which has binded in router (router model binding) and has used Shetabit\Visitor\Traits\Visitable trait.