Yii2-audittrail

Yii2-audittrail is a behavior and a set of widgets to track all modifications performed on a model

Advantages

This is not the first audit trail extension. So why use this one? Those are some of the major advantages:

• this extension works with composite primary keys
• it also works with console applications
• you can explicitly configure what fields to log
• GridView-baded widget to show the audit trail with huge customization options (eg rendering of values by closures, yii-formatter, etc.)

Installation

The preferred way to install this extension is through composer.

Either run

$ composer require asinfotrack/yii2-audittrail

or add

"asinfotrack/yii2-audittrail": "dev-master"

to the require section of your composer.json file.

Migration

After downloading everything you need to apply the migration creating the audit trail entry table:

yii migrate --migrationPath=@vendor/asinfotrack/yii2-audittrail/migrations

To remove the table just do the same migration downwards.

Usage

Behavior

Attach the behavior to your model and you're done:

public function behaviors()
{
    return [
    	// ...
    	'audittrail'=>[
    		'class'=>AuditTrailBehavior::className(),
    		
    		// some of the optional configurations
    		'ignoredAttributes'=>['created_at','updated_at'],
    		'consoleUserId'=>1, 
			'attributeOutput'=>[
				'desktop_id'=>function ($value) {
					$model = Desktop::findOne($value);
					return sprintf('%s %s', $model->manufacturer, $model->device_name);
				},
				'last_checked'=>'datetime',
			],
    	],
    	// ...
    ];
}

Widget

The widget is also very easy to use. Just provide the model to get the audit trail for:

<?= AuditTrail::widget([
	'model'=>$model,
	
	// some of the optional configurations
	'userIdCallback'=>function ($userId, $model) {
 		return User::findOne($userId)->fullname;
	},
	'changeTypeCallback'=>function ($type, $model) {
		return Html::tag('span', strtoupper($type), ['class'=>'label label-info']);
	},
	'dataTableOptions'=>['class'=>'table table-condensed table-bordered'],
]) ?>

Changelog

Learn about the latest improvements.