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Yako
Yako

Reputation: 3484

How to log users actions in Laravel? How to listen to controllers methods?

I'd like to study users behaviors by recording in a specific table of the database any actions made by the users (user, timestamp, [controller and method names] or [url and request method]).

This thread deals with a similar question but it seems to be listening to three methods ; I'd rather prefer a more global solution.

So, here is what I tried so far:

global.php

Event::listen('*', function(){
    $action = Event::firing();
    App::make('SpyController')->spy($action);
});

SpyController.php

class SpyController extends BaseController {
    public function spy($action){
        $spy = new Spy();
        $spy->name=$action;
        $spy->user_id=Auth::user()->id;
        $spy->save();
    }
}

Doing so, I get a timeout error. I guess that there are too many things to listen to, and I should better limit to a choice of controllers. However, I don't understand how to listen to specific controllers. The documentation presents an example with auth.login. If I got it right, this stands for model.method. Is it possible to listen to controller.method?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2528

Answers (1)

mcklayin
mcklayin

Reputation: 1360

Timeout error I thought because you have a controller LogController instead of SpyController

auth.login, auth.attempt, router.* are builti-in laravel src and fires with dispatcher. So, if you need to make a listner for controllers you can create a middleware, which will fire an event with enything you want. For example: middleware registred name - spylogs. Handle method(in middleware):

    public function handle($request, Closure $next)
    {
        $method = $request->method();
        Event::fire('some_name.'.$method);
        return $next($request);
    }

In controller:

$this->middleware('spylogs');

Wherever you want:

Event::listen('some_name.method_name', callback);

Upvotes: 2

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