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Lightweight activity logger for Laravel using MongoDB (Laravel 10–12 compatible).

✨ Features

🚀 Automatic model activity tracking (create/update/delete)
🔍 MongoDB database for lightweight operation
👤 Tracks causer (user, artisan, queue jobs)
⚡ Configurable event logging
📊 Powerful querying capabilities
📦 Easy installation and setup

Requisitos de MongoDB

El paquete es compatible con estas versiones del driver oficial:

mongodb/laravel-mongodb: 3.8+ (incluye v4 y v5)
PHP extension mongodb: 1.10+

Si necesitas usar una versión diferente, instálala manualmente:

composer require mongodb/laravel-mongodb:"YOUR_VERSION"

## 📦 Installation

### 1. Install via Composer

```bash
composer require garcia1901l/laravel-activity-lite

Optional: Publish the configuration file:

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Garcia1901l\LaravelActivityLite\ActivityLiteServiceProvider"

2. Run the installation command

php artisan activity-lite:install

This will:

Create the MongoDB database
Run the required migrations

🧑‍💻 Basic Usage

Add the trait to your models:

use Garcia1901l\LaravelActivityLite\Traits\LogsActivity;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;

class User extends Model 
{
    use LogsActivity;
}

🔧 Advanced Usage

Manual Logging

User::logManualAction('custom_action', [
    'message' => 'Special event occurred',
    'data' => ['key' => 'value']
]);

Query Logs

# View recent activity
php artisan activity-lite:query --days=7

# Filter by model
php artisan activity-lite:query --model=User

# Filter by action
php artisan activity-lite:query --action=updated

# Export results
php artisan activity-lite:query --days=30 --json
php artisan activity-lite:query --days=30 --csv

⚙️ Configuration

Publish the config file:

php artisan vendor:publish --tag=activity-lite-config

Example of config/activity-lite.php:

return [
    'enabled' => true,
    'database_name' => 'activity_lite',
    'events' => ['created', 'updated', 'deleted', 'soft_deleted', 'force_deleted', 'restored'],
    'except' => [], // Models to exclude
];

🗃️ Database Structure

The activity_logs table includes:

Column	Type	Description
id	bigint	Primary key
action	string	Performed action
log_type	string	'model' or 'manual'
model_type	string	Model class
model_id	bigint	Model ID
causer_type	string	Who performed the action
causer_id	bigint	Causer ID
data	json	Change data
created_at	timestamp	Creation time
updated_at	timestamp	Last update time

🛠️ Customization

Temporarily disable logging

config(['activity-lite.enabled' => false]);

Exclude specific models

'except' => [
    App\Models\SensitiveModel::class,
],

Log only specific attributes and ignore others

public function getActivityLogOptions(): array
{
    return [
        'log_attributes' => ['name', 'email'],
        'ignore_attributes' => ['password', 'remember_token']
    ];
}

✅ Requirements

PHP 8.1+
Laravel 10.x to 12.x
MongoDB extension for PHP

📄 License

MIT License. See LICENSE for details.

👤 Author

Frank Garcia

garcia1901l / laravel-activity-lite

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