Automatic created_by, updated_by, and deleted_by model attributes.

Getting Started

Prerequisites

This package requires PHP 7.1.3 or higher, illuminate/support@^5.7, and illuminate/database@^5.7.

Installing

Via Composer:

composer require dbt/blame

Testing

Run:

composer test

Usage

Publish the blame.php configuration file with the php artisan vendor:publish command, or copy the file from this repository. The service provider should be auto-discovered.

In your configuration file, add the models you wish to observe:

'models' => [
    App\MyModel::class
],

You can also use the config file to customize the column names and swap out the observer if you wish.

deleted_at will only be written if the given model uses Soft Deletes.

Default user id

If you're mutating models in non-authenticated contexts and you wish to write a default user id on create, update, or delete, you can set the blame.user.default_id config key to an integer. By default this key is null.

Manual override

If you set a value manually (eg $model->created_at = 1), this value will be written to the database instead of the automatic value. This is useful for contexts where you don't have an authenticated user (eg when creating models via the console) and you still wish to write an id.

Model trait

You'll probably want relations, in which case you can use BlameTrait, which provides created_by, updated_by and deleted_by relations. You can of course opt not to use this trait and define your own relation methods however you like.

Blueprint macro

There is also a Blueprint macro, blameColumns that you can use in your migrations:

Schema::create('myTable', function (Blueprint $table) {
    $table->blameColumns();
}

This macro will create the columns specified in your blame.php config file.

License

MIT. Do as you wish.