In this article i will show you how to See Who’s Online in your laravel app using Laravel Package called activity With this package, you can easily see who’s online and how many guests are viewing your site. so lets get started with installation
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
:
"kim/activity": "~1.0"
Afterward, run either composer update
or composer install
.
Providers and Aliases
Next, open config/app.php
and add this to your providers array:
KimActivityActivityServiceProvider::class
and this to your aliases array:
'Activity' => KimActivityActivityFacade::class
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.
SESSION_DRIVER=database
Finally, publish the migration file and run it.
php artisan vendor:publish
php artisan migrate
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.
// Import at the top
use Activity;
// Find latest users
$activities = Activity::users()->get();
// Loop through and echo user's name
foreach ($activities->users as $user) {
echo $user->name . '<br>';
}
The users
method will grab the most recent activities within the past 5 minutes. You can change the default timespan by specifying the minutes.
$activities = Activity::users(1)->get(); // Last 1 minute
$activities = Activity::users(10)->get(); // Last 10 minutes
$activities = Activity::users(60)->get(); // Last 60 minutes
You have other methods for your convenience to grab the latest activities by seconds or even hours.
$activities = Activity::usersBySeconds(30)->get(); // Get active users within the last 30 seconds
$activities = Activity::usersByMinutes(10)->get(); // Get active users within the last 10 minutes
$activities = Activity::usersByHours(1)->get(); // Get active users within the last 1 hour
$numberOfUsers = Activity::users()->count(); // Count the number of active users
Sorting Methods
In order to sort the activities by most and least recent, just use the mostRecent
and leastRecent
methods.
$activities = Activity::users()->mostRecent()->get(); // Get active users and sort them by most recent
$activities = Activity::users()->leastRecent()->get(); // Get active users and sort them by least recent
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.
$activities = Activity::users()->orderByUsers('email')->get();
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:
$numberOfGuests = Activity::guests()->count(); // Count the number of active guests
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