General Configuration

The default auditing behavior can be altered by updating the settings in the configuration file, which can be found in config/audit.php.

Audit implementation

Since version 4.1.0, the audit implementation can be configured.

By default, the package will use OwenIt\Auditing\Models\Audit.

return [
    // ...

    'implementation' => OwenIt\Auditing\Models\Audit::class,

    // ...
];

Read more about it in the Audit Implementation section.

User Keys, Model & Resolver

Specify the User keys, model and resolver.

Primary and Foreign Keys

Sometimes, for whatever reason (legacy database, etc), a different key needs to be used. The default primary and foreign key values are id and user_id, respectively.

return [
    // ...

    'user' = [
        'primary_key' => 'id',
        'foreign_key' => 'user_id',
    ],

    // ...
];

{note} The Audit resolveData() method will still use user_id and other user_ prefixed keys for any User data, regardless of the foreign key that was set.

Model

The model value should be set to the FQCN of the User class used by the application.

return [
    // ...

    'user' = [
        'model' => App\User::class,
    ],

    // ...
];

Resolver

A resolver is a class implementing the OwenIt\Auditing\Contracts\UserResolver contract.

The only thing needed is a public static resolveId() method with the logic to resolve a logged User.

The resolveId() method should return the ID of the currently logged User, or null if the User could not be resolved.

<?php
namespace App;

use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Auth;
use OwenIt\Auditing\Contracts\Auditable;
use OwenIt\Auditing\Contracts\UserResolver;

class User extends Model implements Auditable, UserResolver
{
    use \OwenIt\Auditing\Auditable;

    /**
     * {@inheritdoc}
     */
    public static function resolveId()
    {
        return Auth::check() ? Auth::user()->getAuthIdentifier() : null;
    }

    // ...
}

{tip} When using other authentication mechanisms like Sentinel, update the resolver logic accordingly.

The resolver is defined in the config/audit.php configuration file. This is done by assigning the FQCN value of class implementing it to the user.resolver index.

return [
    // ...

    'user' = [
        'resolver' => App\User::class,
    ],

    // ...
];

{note} Support for Closure and callable resolvers has been removed from version 5.0.0 onwards.

Audit driver

Being the only driver provided, the Database driver is set as default.

return [
    // ...

    'driver' => 'database',

    // ...
];

The Database driver allows modifying:

• The database connection.
• The table where the Audit records are stored.

return [
    // ...

    'drivers' => [
        'database' => [
            'table'      => 'audits',
            'connection' => null,
        ],
    ],

    // ...
];

Console

Eloquent events that are fired when running in the console, are not audited by default. To enable console auditing, set the console value to true.

return [
    // ...

    'console' => true,

    // ...
];

{note} Resolving a User in the console may not work.