This Laravel 5 package provides a very easy to use solution to log the activities of the users of your Laravel 5 app. All the activities will be logged in a db-table. Optionally the activities can also be logged against the default Laravel Log Handler.

If you're using Laravel 4, take a look at version 0.3.0 of this package.

This package can be installed through Composer.

composer require spatie/activitylog

This service provider must be registered.

// config/app.php

'providers' => [
    '...',
    'Spatie\Activitylog\ActivitylogServiceProvider',
];

You'll also need to publish and run the migration in order to create the db-table.

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

Activitylog also comes with a facade, which provides an easy way to call it.

// config/app.php

'aliases' => [
	...
	'Activity' => 'Spatie\Activitylog\ActivitylogFacade',
];

Optionally you can publish the config file of this package.

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

The configuration will be written to config/activitylog.php. The options provided are self explanatory.

Logging some activity is very simple.

/* 
  The log-function takes two parameters:
  	- $text: the activity you wish to log.
  	- $user: optional can be an user id or a user object. 
  	         if not proved the id of Auth::user() will be used
  
*/
Activity::log('Some activity that you wish to log');

Over time your log will grow. To clean up the database table you can run this command:

Activity::cleanLog();

By default records older than 2 months will be deleted. The number of months can be modified in the config-file of the package.