README

A simple, easy-to-use audit logging system with translation at the heart. Uses UUIDs for easy dataset merging and management.

Installation

1. Add Joshbrw\AuditLogging\AuditLoggingServiceProviders, under the providers key in config/app.php.
2. Add 'Audit' => Joshbrw\AuditLogging\Facades\Audit::class, under the aliases key in config/app.php to register the Facade
3. Run php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Joshbrw\\AuditLogging\\AuditLoggingServiceProvider" - this will publish the migration(s) to your top-level database/migrations directory.
4. Run php artisan migrate to run the migration(s) provided with this package.
5. On each of your Eloquent models that you wish to log, add the Joshbrw\AuditLogging\Traits\Eloquent\Auditable trait.

Usage

Basic Attributes

Every Audit Log item has two required attributes:

• auditable_type | auditable_id - The entity the audit relates to
• message_key - The translation key of the message

The option attributes are:

• message_replacements - An array of replacements that should be passed to the translator when displaying the audit log.
• data - Any array/object of data that you'd like to store against the Audit Log.
• user_id - The ID of the User performing the action being logged. Supports Laravel's Auth and Sentinel by default, allows for custom adapters via the UserResolver

Using the Helper Methods & Service

This library ships with an audit() method, with the following syntax:

    /**
     * Helper method for logging an audit entry.
     * @param mixed $entity The entity to create the log for
     * @param string $messageKey The key of the translatable message to use
     * @param array|null $messageReplacements Array of replacements for the message
     * @param array|null $data Any data to attribute to the audit log item
     * @return AuditLog Audit log instance
     */
    function audit($entity, string $messageKey, array $messageReplacements = null, array $data = null): AuditLog {

Which simply proxies through to the Joshbrw\AuditLogging\AuditLogManager service's log() method, which accepts the same parameters.

Facade

The package also ships with a Facade which can be used as \Audit:: and proxies through to the AuditLogManager, such as Audit::log() and Audit::translate().

Fetching Audit Logs

You can use the AuditLogRepository to fetch Audit Logs for a specific Eloquent Model:

1. Ensure that the entity is using the Auditable trait.
2. See the following code to learn how to fetch all Audit Logs for the model, in reverse chronological order:

$user = App\User::first();
$auditLogs = app(Joshbrw\AuditLogging\Repositories\AuditLogRepository::class)->getAllAuditLogs($user);