5.5-7.md

Laravel Users Online

Laravel compatibility

Laravel	Package
5.8.x	2.4.x
5.7.x	2.3.x
5.6.x	2.3.x
5.5.x	2.3.x
5.4.x	2.2.x
5.3.x	2.0.x
5.2.x	1.0.x

Instalation

Add the new required package in your composer.json

"highideas/laravel-users-online": "^2.4"

Run composer update or php composer.phar update.

Or install directly via composer

composer require highideas/laravel-users-online

After composer command, add new middleware in app/Http/Kernel.php :

\HighIdeas\UsersOnline\Middleware\UsersOnline::class,

After this, add the trait in your model User in app/User.php:

class User extends Authenticatable
{
    use \HighIdeas\UsersOnline\Traits\UsersOnlineTrait;
...

Finally run php artisan vendor:publish for add the namespaces

Usage

For show the users online just use the method allOnline():

$user = new User;
$user->allOnline();

Or if you want to check if a specific user is online use the method isOnline():

$user = User::find($id);
$user->isOnline();

You can sort all users online with the methods mostRecentOnline() and leastRecentOnline():

$user = new User;
$user->mostRecentOnline();
$user->leastRecentOnline();

Installation and usage on last versions of framework:

Laravel 5.4

Laravel 5.3

Laravel 5.2