Laravel User Activity Log

yungts97/laravel-user-activity-log is a package for Laravel 8.x that provides easy to use features to log the activities of the users of your Laravel app. It provides automatic logging for the model events without complicated action. All activity will be stored in the logs table.

📦 Environment Requirements

PHP: ^8.0

Laravel: ^8.x - ^9.0

🚀 Installation

You can install the package via composer:

composer require yungts97/laravel-user-activity-log

The package will automatically register a service provider.

After that, we still need one more step to complete the installation by run this command.

php artisan user-activity-log:install

✨ How to use?

This package is very simple and easy to use. The only thing you need to do is add the Loggable trait in your model class.

use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
use Yungts97\LaravelUserActivityLog\Traits\Loggable;

class Post extends Model
{
    use Loggable; // add it in here
    ...
}

It might troublesome if you have a lot of models. You could have a base class for your models and add Loggable trait in your base model.

# BaseModel.php
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
use Yungts97\LaravelUserActivityLog\Traits\Loggable;

class BaseModel extends Model
{
    use Loggable;
}

# PostModel.php
class Post extends BaseModel
{
    ...
}

If you don't want to log for any child class of the base model, you can add SkipLogging trait to skip the log for the model.

use Yungts97\LaravelUserActivityLog\Traits\SkipLogging;

class Post extends BaseModel
{
    use SkipLogging;
    ...
}

Sometimes, you don't want to save certain attributes of your model in logging. You can add $log_hidden attribute to your model.

use Yungts97\LaravelUserActivityLog\Traits\SkipLogging;

class Post extends BaseModel
{
    public $log_hidden = ['created_at', 'description'];
    ...
}

You can retrieve all activity using the Yungts97\LaravelUserActivityLog\Models\Log model.

Log::all();

However, you can get activity logs from a model by using this.

$post->logs; // get all model's logs
$post->log; // get the latest model's log
$post->logs()->where('log_type', 'edit')->get(); // get filtered logs

You allowed to specify the mode for the edit event log. There are two modes available now simple/full. The default mode is full.

# config/user-activity-log.php

# only can choose either one of them
'mode' => 'full',   # the 'full' mode record everything
'mode' => 'simple', # the 'simple' mode only record the modified columns

⚙️ Configuration

You can change the configuration of this package on config/user-activity-log.php.

return [
    # add your own middleware here (route middleware)
    'middleware' => ['api', 'auth'],

    # user model class
    'user_model' =>  "App\Models\User",

    # exclude tables for filter option
    'exclude_tables' => [
        'logs',
        'migrations',
        'failed_jobs',
        'password_resets',
        'personal_access_tokens',
    ],

    # events to log
    'events' => [
        'create' => true,
        'edit'   => true,
        'delete' => true,
        'retrieve' => false,
        'login'  => true,
        'logout' => true
    ],

    # the mode is only for 'edit' event log
    # the 'simple' mode only record the modified columns
    # the 'full' mode record everything
    # supported mode => 'simple' / 'full'
    'mode' => 'full',

    # timezone for log date time (Change to your region time zone, or any other variation of the timezone key in .env)
    # UTC is the default the time zone being recorded.
    # define your timezone to have the accurate logs time and filtered record (Especially filtered by date time)
    'timezone' => env('APP_TIMEZONE','UTC')
];

🐣 API Routes

Endpoint	Method	Response Format	Description
/logs	GET	JSON	To retrieve user activity logs.
/logs/filter-options	GET	JSON	To retrieve filter options for filtering logs.
/logs/{log_id}	GET	JSON	To retrieve specific activity log.

Available paramaters for log filtering:

Parameter	Type	Description
page	integer	The page number for log pagination.
itemsPerPage	integer	The number item per page for log pagination
userId	integer	Filtering logs by the user ID.
dataId	integer	Filtering logs by the data ID.
logType	string	Filtering logs by log type.
tableName	string	Filtering logs by the table name.
dateFrom	string	Filtering logs by the date range. (Must have dateFrom & dateTo paramaters)
dateTo	string	Filtering logs by the date range. (Must have dateFrom & dateTo paramaters)

Exp. http://example.com/api/logs?page=1&itemsPerPage=10&userId=517

📬 Sample Response

/logs

{
    "current_page": 1,
    "data": [
        {
            "id": 77,
            "user_id": 942,
            "log_datetime": "2022-01-22T05:56:57.000000Z",
            "table_name": null,
            "log_type": "login",
            "request_info": {
                "ip": "192.121.0.56",
                "user_agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/97.0.4692.71 Safari/537.36"
            },
            "data": null,
            "current_data": null,
            "humanize_datetime": "17 seconds ago",
            "user": {
                "id": 1,
                "name": "User 1",
            }
        },
    ],
    "first_page_url": "http://localhost/api/logs?page=1",
    "from": 1,
    "last_page": 1,
    "last_page_url": "http://localhost/api/logs?page=1",
    "links": [
        {
            "url": null,
            "label": "« Previous",
            "active": false
        },
        {
            "url": "http://localhost/api/logs?page=1",
            "label": "1",
            "active": true
        },
    ],
    "next_page_url": null,
    "path": "http://localhost/api/logs",
    "per_page": "10",
    "prev_page_url": null,
    "to": 10,
    "total": 1
}

/logs/filter-options

{
    "table_names": [
        "posts",
        "users",
    ],
    "log_types": [
        "create",
        "edit",
        "delete",
        "login",
        "logout"
    ]
}

/logs/77

{
    "id": 77,
    "user_id": 942,
    "log_datetime": "2022-01-22T05:56:57.000000Z",
    "table_name": null,
    "log_type": "login",
    "request_info": {
        "ip": "192.121.0.56",
        "user_agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/97.0.4692.71 Safari/537.36"
    },
    "data": null,
    "current_data": null,
    "humanize_datetime": "17 seconds ago",
    "user": {
        "id": 1,
        "name": "User 1",
    }
},

🎩 Artisan Commands

Command	Description	Option
user-activity-log:install	Preparing all the files it needed for the user activity log package.	N/A
user-activity-log:flush	Remove all the user activity log records that in the database.	N/A
user-activity-log:clean	Remove the user activity log records that in the database.	--day, --month, --year, --date

✒️ Options for user-activity-log:clean

Option	Value	Example	Description
--day	numeric	--day=7	Delete user activity log older than N days.
--month	mm/yyyy	--month=01/2022	Delete user activity logs for a month of the year.
--year	yyyy	--year=2022	Delete user activity logs for a year.
--date	yyyy	--date=15/02/2022	Delete user activity logs for a specific date.

⚠️ Notice: Without any option applied by default is --day=7

📃 License

The MIT License (MIT). Please see License File for more information.