Laravel 8 Audit for Beginners (5 easy steps) ✍🏻📒💾
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Laravel Auditing is a Laravel package that aims to make it easy to track eloquent model changes. The documentation describes Laravel Auditing as follows:
Laravel Auditing allows you to keep a history of model changes by simply using a trait. Retrieving the audited data is straightforward, making it possible to display it in various ways.
Along with model changes, each audit record contains the User Agent, audit URL, and the IP address of the user. One of the main use cases of the package is looking at suspicious activities or unexpected changes in the model.
You can read more about it here.
Now that you have an understanding of Laravel Auditing lets dive right in the codes!
Step 1: Install the package
In the first step we have to install our package. So open your terminal and run this below command
composer require owen it/laravel auditing
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Step 2: Generate and publish the vendor and the audits table migration by:
php artisan vendor:publish provider ""OwenIt\Auditing\AuditingServiceProvider"" tag=""migrations""
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Run Migrate:
php artisan migrate
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Step 3: Export the config file for the later adjustment
php artisan vendor:publish provider ""OwenIt\Auditing\AuditingServiceProvider"" tag=""config""
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Step 4: Apply in the Model
Let's say I have a Product model like this:
namespace App\Models;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
class Product extends Model
{
protected $guarded = [];
}
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Add update to your Product model like this:
namespace App\Models;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
use OwenIt\Auditing\Contracts\Auditable;
use OwenIt\Auditing\Auditable as AuditableTrait;
class Product extends Model implements Auditable
{
use AuditableTrait;
protected $guarded = [];
}
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And that's it.
Step 5: Check the audits table in the database and you should see the auditing rows for the product.
SELECT * FROM `audits`
id user_type user_id event auditable_type auditable_id old_values new_values url ip_address user_agent tags created_at updated_at
1 App\Models\User 976 created App\Models\Product 1297 [] {""title"":""Quisquam autem id ei"",""description"":""Exc... http://laravel prep.test/en/products 127.0.0.1 Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWeb... NULL 2020 11 29 10:44:48 2020 11 29 10:44:48
2 App\Models\User 976 created App\Models\Product 1298 [] {""title"":""Ullamco laboriosam"",""description"":""Repel... http://laravel prep.test/en/products 127.0.0.1 Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWeb... NULL 2020 11 29 10:44:57 2020 11 29 10:44:57
3 App\Models\User 976 updated App\Models\Product 1296 {""title"":""Quisquam autem id ei""} {""title"":""Voluptatibus sunt i""} http://laravel prep.test/en/products/1296 127.0.0.1 Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWeb... NULL 2020 11 29 10:50:49 2020 11 29 10:50:49
4 App\Models\User 976 deleted App\Models\Product 1297 {""id"":1297,""title"":""Quisquam autem id ei"",""descrip... [] http://laravel prep.test/en/products/1297 127.0.0.1 Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWeb... NULL 2020 11 29 10:51:14 2020 11 29 10:51:14
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Hurray! we have now applied, run and tested Laravel Auditing in 5 easy steps. Hope this helped!
