laravel-visitors maintained by nickdekruijk
Laravel Visitors
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">