nickdekruijk/laravel-visitors

A simple, privacy friendly visitor tracking for Laravel applications.

0.5.1 2024-06-22 15:48 UTC

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Last update: 2024-12-22 16:47:24 UTC


README

A simple, privacy friendly visitor tracking for Laravel applications.

Installation

Begin by installing this package with composer.

composer require nickdekruijk/laravel-visitors

Configuration

Publish the config file if the defaults doesn't suite your needs:

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="NickDeKruijk\LaravelVisitors\ServiceProvider"

Separate databases

You might want to separate the visitors database from the main application database for performance or to avoid conflicts. Add a new connection in your config/database.php connections array for example:

        'visitors' => [
            'driver' => 'sqlite',
            'database' => database_path('visitors.sqlite'),
        ],

And change db_connection configuration in the config/visitors.php file or add VISITORS_DB_CONNECTION in your .env file.

Include tracker

Add @include('laravel-visitors::track') inside your view, a good spot might be directly after the <head> tag in your app.blade.php layout file, for example:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="{{ str_replace('_', '-', app()->getLocale()) }}">

    <head>
        @include('laravel-visitors::track')
        <meta charset="utf-8">