goper-leo/laravel-sentry

Record visitor views on articles/project or your site with extra details for monitoring.

Laravel Sentry

This is not an integration of Sentry.

This is a Laravel package for recording visitor on your articles, project or any page in your application. It will save on the database the visitor/user who view page on your app with their details like location, ip address, browser, machine etc., _(*1)

Installation

• Install the goper-leo/laravel-sentry:

composer require goper-leo/laravel-sentry

or add to your composer.json, _(*2)

"goper-leo/laravel-sentry": "dev-master"

and run composer update, _(*3)

• Add the configuration for the package run php artisan vendor:publish --provider=SentryServiceProvider, _(*4)

• After vendor publish create the table on your database run php artisan migrate the table will be named sentries, _(*5)

If you're on Laravel 5.4 or earlier, you'll need to add the following to your config/app/php, _(*6)

'providers' => array(
    EETechMedia\Sentry\SentryServiceProvider::class,
)
'aliases' => array(
    'Sentry' => EETechMedia\Sentry\SentryFacade::class,
)

Usage

Add the facade on your controller, _(*7)

use Sentry;

Sentry columns - base_id = Your point or source this only allow integer value - this could be page id , project_id or any point. This can be null., _(*8)

• url = If you don't use base_id use url as your point / primary key. This is string value, this can be null also.

Note: base_id and url cannot be both null, there must be at least one of the both will have a value. To make your primary key or point of reference., _(*9)

To add user/viewer simply put on your controller, _(*10)

$viewer = [
    'base_id' => 'point_id',
    'url' => 'lorem-ipsum'
];

Sentry::plant($viewer);

To fetch / get data of all viewers, _(*11)

Sentry::getAll();
or
Sentry::getAll('base_id-or-url'); // To get all records accoring to condition

Other methods - getWhere - getObserverSpot - getObserverHeaders, _(*12)