Laravel User Logger

Laravel User Logger is a package used to append user specific data into the log files. It could be used to track which user produced an exception in order to help debugging.

Exemple

#31 app\vendor\laravel\framework\src\Illuminate\Pipeline\Pipeline.php(104): Illuminate\Routing\Pipeline->Illuminate\Routing\{closure}(Object(Illuminate\Http\Request))
#32 app\vendor\laravel\framework\src\Illuminate\Foundation\Http\Kernel.php(150): Illuminate\Pipeline\Pipeline->then(Object(Closure))
#33 app\vendor\laravel\framework\src\Illuminate\Foundation\Http\Kernel.php(117): Illuminate\Foundation\Http\Kernel->sendRequestThroughRouter(Object(Illuminate\Http\Request))
#34 app\public\index.php(53): Illuminate\Foundation\Http\Kernel->handle(Object(Illuminate\Http\Request))
#35 {main}  {"user":1}

As you can see the stack trace is completed by a custom attribute user displaying the id of the user who provoked the exception.

If the user isn't logged it will write anonymous. Else if the exception has been thrown before the session start, the user information will not be displayed.

Installation

Begin by installing the package with Composer.

composer require tzk/laravel-user-logger

Once the installation is complete, add the service provider in your config/app.php file:

TZK\UserLogger\Providers\UserLoggerServiceProvider::class,

Then you'll need to change in your app/Http/Kernel.php file the middleware

\Illuminate\Session\Middleware\StartSession::class

to this one

\TZK\UserLogger\Http\Middlewares\StartSession::class

Configuration

By default the package uses the primary key of your User model. This behavior can be overridden by publishing the package config file.

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="TZK\UserLogger\Providers\UserLoggerServiceProvider"

This command will create a user_logger.php config file in your config folder in which you could specify which user attribute you would display in your logs.