Column 'visitor' cannot be null

[mohamedshuaau]

This happens when I clear my Cache and Cookies from the browser and refresh the browser.
I get the error Integrity Violation Column 'visitor' cannot be null.
But if I refresh again, It works.

Could it be that the cookie is not being initiated? How can I fix this?

[cyrildewit]

I'm not able to reproduce this. I cleared my cache using php artisan cache:clear and resetted my browser data in chrome using: at Application tab under Clear storage -> clear site data.

Did you do something different?

[mohamedshuaau]

Sorry yes. I had a custom func written because my live server was running on a load balancer and fideloper proxy was not working for some reason. Basically it overrides the $request->ip() function. That is why when I am on my local development, it returns null. Sorry about that. You can close the issue.

One thing that i did not get was, how do I add unique views? And how do i get popular posts where unique id?

[cyrildewit]

One thing that i did not get was, how do I add unique views? And how do i get popular posts where unique id?

Every time when the $model->addView() method is triggered, it stores a view in the database. This view contains the viewer's unique id or his ip address if he's in igcognito mode. You can call the getUniqueViews method to get the total number of unique views.

[mohamedshuaau]

Yes that is fine. But how can I use orderByViewsCount() with unique views?

[cyrildewit]

Ahh, I misunderstood. It's currently not possible. Lol, I never thought of that. I'm working on it. There will be a new release soon.

[mohamedshuaau]

Well. Guess that solves this issue. When is the estimated release?

[cyrildewit]

I hope this evening.

[mohamedshuaau]

Not sure what time that would be for me but I will surely keep hitting that reload button for the new update. By the way, awesome package. Just this feature was what I needed. Keep up the awesome work :)

[cyrildewit]

Thank you for the kind words.

I'm not going to make it today. I'm also not really experienced with sql, so it's going to take a while before I found the right query that I can use. I'm busy this week, but I'll try to make it as fast as possible.

[cyrildewit]

See #85