A short review of a package which is hugely popular but I've found it only recently. Quite a useful case - if you want to log all the changes to your data - who changed what and when, it's pretty simple with Revisionable.
The usage is pretty simple:
- Install the package
- Run its migrations - basically it's one table called "revisions"
- Add some code into a model you want to "follow"
Here's my example of Model:
namespace App;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
class Book extends Model
{
use \Venturecraft\Revisionable\RevisionableTrait;
protected $fillable = ['title', 'description'];
public static function boot()
{
parent::boot();
}
}
And basically, that's it. Whenever someone updates a database entry with Eloquent, like this:
$book = \App\Book::find(1);
$book->update(['title' => 'bbb']);
You will get a new entry in database table revisions.
And then you can create a separate view to show that log more conveniently.
Of course, there are a lot of additional settings and functionality, like for example:
- History limit = X. Stop tracking revisions after 500 changes have been made
- $revisionCleanup = true; //Remove old revisions (works only when used with $historyLimit)
- Storing soft deletes
- Storing creations or not
In general, a really good package by Chris Duell. And I recommend you read full documentation on Github page here - a lot of interesting small things there.
Update: there's another similar package by Marcel Pociot - called Versionable - check it out too.
