README

Used to track and display statistics, and Trends.

Installation

You can install this plugin into your CakePHP application using composer.

The recommended way to install composer packages is:

composer require fr3nch13/cakephp-stats

Usage

This all revolves around the event listener StatsListener.

To use this plugin, you need to extend the StatsListener, and define your StatsObject keys in it. As an example of how to extend the StatsListener and define your objects.

See CakePHP's Event System

src/Event/TestListener.php:

<?php
declare(strict_types=1);

namespace App\Event;

use Cake\Event\Event;

class ArticleListener extends StatsListener
{
    // Define your events here
    public function implementedEvents(): array
    {
        return [
            'App.Article.hit' => 'onHit',
        ];
    }

    public function onHit(Event $event, int $articleId, int $count = 1): bool
    {
        // track if any articles were viewed
        // Article.hits is a StatsObject key.
        parent::recordCount($event, 'Articles.hits'); // leave out count to just increment by one.

        // track the specific article
        // Article.hits.[id] is a seperate StatsObject key from above.
        parent::recordCount($event, 'Articles.hits.' . $articleId, $count);
    }
}

Once you've created your Listener that has been extended from the StatsListener, you need to register it. In either your Application.php (if you're directly using it within an app), or your Plugin.php (if your using this within another plugin), you need to Use the EventManager to register your Listener in the bootstrap() method. For an example, See: StatsPlugin.php's bootstrap().

src/BlogPlugin.php

<?php
declare(strict_types=1);

namespace Fr3nch13\Blog;

use Cake\Core\BasePlugin;
use Cake\Core\PluginApplicationInterface;
use Cake\Event\EventManager;
use Fr3nch13\Stats\Event\TestListener;


class BlogPlugin extends BasePlugin
{
    // other code

    public function bootstrap(PluginApplicationInterface $app): void
    {
        // Register your listener with the Event Manager
        EventManager::instance()->on(new ArticleListener());

        parent::bootstrap($app);
    }

    /// other code
}

src/Controller/ArticlesController.php

<?php
declare(strict_types=1);

namespace Fr3nch13\Blog\Controller;

use Cake\Event\Event;
use Fr3nch13\Blog\AppController;

class ArticlesController extends AppController
{
    /**
     * Example of how to register a hit
     */
    public function view(int $id): ?Response
    {
        $article = $this->Articles->get($id);

        // do this reight before rendering the view incase your code above throws an error,
        // or redirects somewhere else.
        $this->getEventManager()->dispatch(new Event('App.Article.hit', $this, [
            'articleId' => $id,
            'count' => 1,
        ]));
    }
}

To use the controller trait, you can do so like:

See: TestsController.

src/Controller/Admin/ArticlesController.php

<?php
declare(strict_types=1);

namespace Fr3nch13\Blog\Admin\Controller;

use Fr3nch13\Stats\Controller\ChartJsTrait;
use Fr3nch13\Blog\Admin\AppController;

class ArticlesController extends AppController
{
    /**
     * Used to do the common tasks for chartjs graphs.
     */
    use ChartJsTrait;

    // other code

    public function line(?int $range = null, ?string $timeperiod = null): ?Response
    {
        $keys = [
            'Articles.hits',
            'Articles.hits.1',
            'Articles.hits.2',
            'Articles.hits.3',
        ];

        return $this->chartJsLine($keys, $range, $timeperiod);
    }

    // other code

    /**
     * To get the stats in a dashboard
     *
     * @return ?\Cake\Http\Response Renders view
     */
    public function dashboard(): ?Response
    {
        /** @var \Fr3nch13\Stats\Model\Table\StatsCountsTable $StatsCounts */
        $StatsCounts = $this->getTableLocator()->get('Fr3nch13/Stats.StatsCounts');

        $stats = $this->StatsCounts->getObjectStats('Articles.hits');

        /*
        $stats will look like:
        $stats = [
            'year' => 12001, <-- counts
            'month' => 3001,
            'week' => 701,
            'day' => 101,
            'hour' => 11,
        ];
        */

        $this->set(compact('stats'));
        $this->viewBuilder()->setOption('serialize', ['stats']);

        return null;
    }
}