Eloquent Viewable Laravel Package

Changed

• Add support for Laravel 13

Changed

• Allow Carbon v3 as dependency

Changed

• Add support for Laravel 11

Changed

• Add support for Laravel 10
• Fixed deprecated variable notation in string

Changed

• Add support for Laravel 9

Fixed

• Revert breaking change of remember method in Views contract. The $lifetime variable has now a default value of null.

Fixed

• Revert breaking change of remember method in Views class. The $lifetime variable has now a default value of null.

Added

• Added bool return typehint to record method in Views contract.
• Added void return typehint to destroy method in Views contract.
• The ViewRecordException will be thrown when trying to record a view for a viewable type.
• The ViewRecorded event will be fired when a new view is recorded.
• Added Views typehint to global views() function.
• Added bool return typehint to isCrawler method in CrawlerDetector contract.

Changed

• Set required PHP versions in composer.json to ^7.4|^8.0.
• The creating of the View instance has been moved into its own method protected function createView(): View.
• The $viewable argument of the forViewable method in Views contract cannot be nullable anymore.
• Changed the method arguments of orderByViews and orderByUniqueViews query scope in Viewable contract and InteractsWithViews trait.
• Changed the method arguments of withViewsCount query scope in InteractsWithViews trait.
• Added nullable Period class typehint to $period argument of period method in Views contract.
• Made $name argument nullable in Views contract.
• Changed return typehint of ip method in Visitor contract to ?string.
• Change DateTime typehint to DateTimeInterface in InvalidPeriod exception.

Removed

• Removed lifetime_in_minutes option from config file.

Fixed

• Fixed count method of Views class to count all views, including the collections (#241).

Fixed

• Use CyrildeWit\EloquentViewable\Contracts\Views to resolve Views instance from container.

Changed

• Remove default value (null) for viewable in views() helper.

Added

• Added Views contract.
• Added Visitor contract.
• Added the Visitor class which represents the current visitor.
• Added protected getViewableTypeSlug() to CacheKey::class.
• Added orderByViews query scope to Viewable trait.
• Added orderByUniqueViews query scope to Viewable trait.
• Added withViewsCount query scope to Viewable trait.

Changed

• The CyrildeWit\EloquentViewable\Viewable trait has been renamed to CyrildeWit\EloquentViewable\InteractsWithViews.
• Renamed session.key to cooldown.key in configuration file.
• Changed the Views class constructor arguments. Added the Visitor as first argument and removed VisitorCookieRepository $visitorCookieRepository, rawlerDetector $crawlerDetector and IpAddressResolver $ipAddressResolver.
• Replaced calls to $this->crawlerDetector in Views with new Visitor class implementation.
• Replaced calls to requestHasDoNotTrackHeader in Views with new Visitor class implementation.
• Changed type of primary key from increments to bigIncrements in views table migration.
• Bumped minimum requirements for Laravel framework components to ^6.0|^7.0.
• Removed check for provided viewable type in getConnectionName(), getDatabaseName(), getModelSlug() and getKeySlug in CacheKey::class.
• Renamed ViewSessionHistory class to CooldownMananger.
• Changed constructor of CooldownManager class. The Illuminate\Contracts\Config\Repository has been added as first parameter and the cooldown key is now retrieved from this instance.
• The Views class now implements the Views contract.
• The constructor of the Views class has been changed.
• Moved Facades/Views to src/ and renamed it to ViewsFacade.
• The global views() helper now supports viewable types.

Removed

• Dropped support for nesbot/carbon ^1.22.
• Removed the deprecated overrideIpAddress method from the Views class.
• Removed the deprecated overrideVisitor method from the Views class.
• Removed requestHasDoNotTrackHeader method from Views class.
• Removed $viewableType argument from constructor of CacheKey::class.
• Removed static fromViewableType method from CacheKey::class.
• Removed HeaderResolver contract and class.
• Removed IpAddressResolver contract and class.
• Removed uniqueVisitor() scope from View model.
• Removed Enums\SortDirection class.
• Removed OrderByViewsScope class.
• Removed the countByType method from the Views class.
• Removed the VisitorCookieRepository (logic is move to the Visitor class).

Fixed

• Update required dependencies in composer.json to adhere to new Laravel 6 verison scheme

Changed

• Add support for Laravel 6

Added

• Added SortDirection enum class that contains a DESCENDING and ASCENDING constant
• Added OrderByViewsScope class that can order a query by views based on some options
• Added collection($collection) query scope to View model
• Added the ability to pass a collection to the orderByViews and orderByUniqueViews query scope
• Added a new CacheKey class with a new improved approach to making keys for the cache
• Added getStartDateTimestamp and getEndDateTimestamp methods to the Period class for internal use
• Added string $collection = null argument to push, createNamespaceKey and createViewableKey methods in ViewSessionHistory

Deprecated

• Deprecated the overrideIpAddress method of the Views class. Please use the new useIpAddress(string $address) method instead.
• Deprecated the overrideVisitor method of the Views class. Please use the new useVisitor(string $visitor) method instead.

Changed

• Replaced inner code of the orderByViews and orderByUniqueViews query scope with the new OrderByViewsScope class
• Removed the string type declaration from the getTable method in the View model class #165

Removed

• Removed the Support\Key class with its references

Added

• Add support for Laravel 5.8

Changed

• Use String and Array classes instead of the helper functions

Fixed

• Fixed the ability to pass an integer to the delayInSession method without getting an error
• Type cast the cached views count otherwise PHP's type hint will fail

Added

• Added the ability to override the visitor's unique ID that's used to distinguish unique views
• Added the ability to specify a cache store that should be used by this package

Fixed

• The method delayInSession isn't working properly

Fixed

• Publishing package migrations results in error (#133)

Added

• Added Views class with facade
• Added IpAddressResolver contract with implementation
• Added HeaderResolver contract with implementation
• Added VisitorCookieRepository class
• Added global helper views
• Added collection column to views table shema
• Added withinPeriod scope to View model
• Added uniqueVisitor scope to View model

Changed

• Bumped minimum required PHP version to ^7.1
• Require viewable models to implement the Viewable contract
• Added global views() helper
• Remove IP address as fallback for visitor cookie when it doesn't exists
• Changed the isBot method name to isCrawler in CrawlerDetector contract and updated the CrawlerDetectAdapter
• Changed the visibility of the $detector property from protected to private
• Add support for 5.7.* of illuminate/config to composer.json
• Moved config file from publishable/config to config/
• Replace create_views_table stub with real migration file and load it inside the service provider
• Allow strings to be passed to the constructor of the Period class
• Extracted key generation logic from Period class to the Key class

Removed

• Removed the ViewTracker class
• Removed the ViewableService class
• Removed the ProcessView job
• Removed the update_views_table migration file from resources/database/migrations
• Removed illuminate/bus as dependency
• Removed illuminate/queue as dependency
• Removed illuminate/routing as dependency

Fixed

• orderByViewsCount scope doesn't adhere to connection prefix

Fixed

• Data too long for column visitor

Fixed

• ProcessView job is always failing

Fixed

• View is saved before ProcessViews job is ran

Changed

• Add support for Laravel 5.7

Deprecated

• Deprecated the CyrildeWit\Support\IpAddress class
• Deprecated the CyrildeWit\Viewtracker class
• Deprecated the scopeOrderByViewsCount method in the Viewable trait
• Deprecated the scopeOrderByUniqueViewsCount method in the Viewable trait

Added

• Add orderByUniqueViewsCount scope to Viewable trait

Added

• Add the ability to add a delay between views from the same session (#73)

Changed

• Caching is now turned off as default

This release accidentally contains no updates.

This major version contains some serious breaking changes! See the upgrade guide for more information!

Added

• Added visitor collumn to the create_views_table migration stub

Changed

• Changed the package name from cyrildewit/laravel-page-view-counter to cyrildewit/eloquent-viewable
• Renamed the HasPageViewCounter trait to Viewable
• Renamed the PageViewCounterServiceProvider class to EloquentViewableServiceProvider
• Changed the namespace from CyrildeWit\PageViewCounter\xxx to 'CyrildeWit\EloquentViewable'
• Added new options to the config file and changed the structure
• Replaced the addPageView method with addView in the Viewable trait
• Replaced all getPageViews<suffix> methods with getViews in the Viewable trait

Removed

• Removed the addPageViewThatExpiresAt method from the Viewable trait
• The DateTransformer functionality has been removed