Log activity inside your Laravel app

The spatie/laravel-activitylog package provides easy to use functions to log the activities of the users of your app. It can also automatically log model events. The package stores all activity in the activity_log table.

Here's a demo of how you can use it:

activity()->log('Look, I logged something');

You can retrieve all activity using the Spatie\Activitylog\Models\Activity model.

Activity::all();

Here's a more advanced example:

activity()
   ->performedOn($anEloquentModel)
   ->causedBy($user)
   ->withProperties(['customProperty' => 'customValue'])
   ->log('Look, I logged something');

$lastLoggedActivity = Activity::all()->last();

$lastLoggedActivity->subject; //returns an instance of an eloquent model
$lastLoggedActivity->causer; //returns an instance of your user model
$lastLoggedActivity->getProperty('customProperty'); //returns 'customValue'
$lastLoggedActivity->description; //returns 'Look, I logged something'

Here's an example on event logging.

$newsItem->name = 'updated name';
$newsItem->save();

//updating the newsItem will cause the logging of an activity
$activity = Activity::all()->last();

$activity->description; //returns 'updated'
$activity->subject; //returns the instance of NewsItem that was saved

Calling $activity->attribute_changes will return this collection:

[
   'attributes' => [
        'name' => 'updated name',
        'text' => 'Lorem',
    ],
    'old' => [
        'name' => 'original name',
        'text' => 'Lorem',
    ],
];

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You'll find the documentation on https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-activitylog/introduction.

Find yourself stuck using the package? Found a bug? Do you have general questions or suggestions for improving the activity log? Feel free to create an issue on GitHub, we'll try to address it as soon as possible.

You can install the package via composer:

composer require spatie/laravel-activitylog

The package will automatically register itself.

You can publish the migration with:

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Spatie\Activitylog\ActivitylogServiceProvider" --tag="activitylog-migrations"

Note: The default migration assumes you are using integers for your model IDs. If you are using UUIDs, or some other format, adjust the format of the subject_id and causer_id fields in the published migration before continuing.

After publishing the migration you can create the activity_log table by running the migrations:

php artisan migrate

You can optionally publish the config file with:

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Spatie\Activitylog\ActivitylogServiceProvider" --tag="activitylog-config"

Please see CHANGELOG for more information about recent changes.

Please see UPGRADING for details.

composer test

Please see CONTRIBUTING for details.

If you've found a bug regarding security please mail security@spatie.be instead of using the issue tracker.

• Freek Van der Herten
• Sebastian De Deyne
• Tom Witkowski
• All Contributors

Special thanks to Ahmed Nagi for all the work he put in v4 and to Caneco for the original logo.

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