Eloquent History Tracker

It keeps track of your table rows and just like git, it only records changes for each update you make.

Installation:

composer require imanghafoori/eloquent-history

php artisan vendor:publish

php artisan migrate

Usage:

public function boot()
{
    // here we want to monitor all the table columns except 'remember_token'
    HistoryTracker::track('App/User', $except = ['remember_token']);
}

Note: As an alternative to registering the Hisotry Tracker inside service providers, you can simply use the WithHistoryTracker trait inside your desired model(s):

use Imanghafoori\EloquentHistory\WithHistoryTracker;

class User extends Authenticatable
{
    use WithHistoryTracker;
    
    // here we want to monitor all the table columns except 'remember_token'
    private static $historyTrackerExceptions = ['remember_token']; 
    ...
}

** Note ** Since this works based on eloquent model events, if you update your rows without firing events the changes would not be recorded.

This includes performing an update query without fetching the row first.

So as an example:

// This query can NOT be monitored.
User::update([...]);

Public API:

// Get all the history as a nice table

HistoryTracker::getHistoryOf(Model $model, array $columns, array $importantCols = []);

// It performs a query on the data changes table and gives you a raw version of changes.

HistoryTracker::getChanges(Model $model, array $cols);

// searches the history for a value in a column.

HistoryTracker::hasEverHad($modelId, string $colName, $value, string $tableName);

Note: all the queries are done within the transaction to guarantee that you do not end up with inconsistent data.

The most important method is the getHistoryOf which accepts an eloquent object, an array of columns to be fetched and an array of columns to be counted as a change.

$importantCols: What it means?!

Consider a situation when you have a table with 10 columns and there are 2 forms to edit column values.

For example, a form to edit first name, last name, bio and etc, and another form to only change password.

Ok, now you need to show the submission history of the first form.

Here you have to exclude the password column otherwise the submissions of other forms will appear in the history of the first form.

HistoryTracker::getChanges($user, ['first_name', 'last_name'], ['first_name', 'last_name', 'bio']);

Here we don't want to show bio on the table but we want to show other metadata about that, for example, the date and the username.

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