Counting page views with Laravel

Question

I want to implement page view counter in my app. What I\'ve done so far is using this method :

public function showpost($titleslug) {
        $post = Post::where         


        

Answer 1

Eloquent Viewable package can be used for this purpose. It provides more flexible ways to do stuff like this(counting page views).

Note:The Eloquent Viewable package requires PHP 7+ and Laravel 5.5+.

Make Model viewable:

Just add the Viewable trait to the model definition like:

use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
use CyrildeWit\EloquentViewable\Viewable;

class Post extends Model
{
    use Viewable;

    // ...
}

Then in the controller:

public function show(Post $post)
{
    $post->addView();

    return view('blog.post', compact('post'));
}

After that you can do stuff like this:(see package installation guide for more details)

// Get the total number of views
$post->getViews();

// Get the total number of views since the given date
$post->getViews(Period::since(Carbon::parse('2014-02-23 00:00:00')));

// Get the total number of views between the given date range
$post->getViews(Period::create(Carbon::parse('2014-00-00 00:00:00'), Carbon::parse('2016-00-00 00:00:00')));

// Get the total number of views in the past 6 weeks (from today)
$post->getViews(Period::pastWeeks(6));

// Get the total number of views in the past 2 hours (from now)
$post->getViews(Period::subHours(2));

// Store a new view in the database
$post->addView();

Implements same kind of idea as in the accepted answer, but provides more features and flexibilities.