How to make ProfileViews count in laravel? - laravel-8

Question

I need help. How do I create profile visitors in Laravel 8? I have not written the code yet and I do not even have an idea how to complete this task. I would be very grateful if you could help me.

Answer 1

You can leave the visitor without any profile. He will be able to access public web pages without authentication and therefore only logged in users will have profile.
UPDATE
Proposed skeleton in two steps using cookies
1- When a user make request on profile page generate an unique identifier and store it in user cookie with a long enough validity if it not yet exists
2- Using this unique token register a new view count (if not yet done) before sending response to user.
use Illuminate\Support\Str;
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use Illuminate\Http\Response;
use App\Http\Requests;
use App\Http\Controllers\Controller;
public function getProfilePage(Request $request){
if(!Cookie::has('uniqueId')){
$uniqueId = Str::uuid(); // generate unique id for current user
Cookie::queue('uniqueId', $uniqueId, [live time in minutes]);
// save it using Cookie::queue
// one year for example as live time
}
// check if view count already exists for $uniqueId
// and save it in a persistent way if not
// other stuff ....
return ....
}