README

A package to audit requests and model data in Laravel

Requirements

• PHP 7.3 or later
• Laravel 8 or later

Installation

In order to run Auditeer you are required to follow these steps in your terminal

1. Install the package with composer require lewis15520/auditeer
2. Copy the required package conents with php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Lewis15520\Auditeer\app\Providers\AuditeerServiceProvider"
3. Install the package migrations with php artisan migrate

Usage

Enabling

To start auditing, go to config/auditeer.php and set the enabled value to true.

Config

The config is for you to configure Auditeer how you want it. There's documentation for each option and what it does. You can turn these on or off at any time.

Traits

The Auditeer trait is for you to asign to your own models. This allows you to track old and new data and the change log will be stored in the parameters field. To do this, you first need to enable track_model_changes in the config by setting it to true. On each mode you would like to track, you can add use Lewis15520\Auditeer\Traits\AuditLog; and then inside the model class, add use AuditLog;. To test this works properly for you, make an update on a single object and check the audit view for that change. If there is model_changes in the parameters, this is successfully working.

Viewing recorded data

Viewing your Auditeer data is as easy as setting the enable_views option to true in the config and going to {base_url}/auditeer_data in your url. Auditeer will provide you with a nice single page interface for you to look at and read your logs. You can edit the page settings in the config under the view_config section.

Displaying user data

Under view_config > user in the config, you can edit how the user is shown in the audit log data views. You can define the model class the user is from (the default is set to \App\Models\User::class). Inside the display_column key, you can define column names to show the relevant data you would like to see (e.g name or email). You can also concatinate columns with a | inbetween (e.g name|email). The first one in the value will display normally and every column after will be put into its own brackets and will be displayed like the following: Jon Doe (jon.doe@example.com).