nickdekruijk / laravel-visitors
A simple, privacy friendly visitor tracking for Laravel applications.
Requires
- php: >=8.1
- jenssegers/agent: ^2.6
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 Javascript
Make sure the resources/js/laravel-visitors.js file is loaded in each pagevisit, preferably using something like webpack/vite or my minify package.
Also make sure your add the @trackvisit blade directive inside your view before loading the above javascript, a good spot might be directly after the <head> tag in your app.blade.php layout file.
<!DOCTYPE html> <html lang="{{ str_replace('_', '-', app()->getLocale()) }}"> <head> @trackvisit <meta charset="utf-8">