Activity Log

Standalone activity logging package for Laravel. Logs human-readable business events with i18n entry resolution, queue support, and multi-tenant context.

Requirements

• PHP 8.4+
• Laravel 12+

Installation

composer require kolaybi/activity-log

The service provider is auto-discovered. Publish the config and migration:

php artisan vendor:publish --tag=activity-log-config
php artisan vendor:publish --tag=activity-log-migrations
php artisan migrate

Configuration

// config/kolaybi/activity-log.php

return [
    'model'            => \KolayBi\ActivityLog\Models\Activity::class,
    'context_provider' => null, // falls back to NullContextProvider
    'connection'       => null, // uses default database connection
    'table'            => 'activities',
    'queue'            => [
        'connection' => 'sync',
    ],
];

Usage

Define an activity group

Create a backed string enum implementing ActivityGroup:

use KolayBi\ActivityLog\Contracts\ActivityGroup;

enum MyActivityGroup: string implements ActivityGroup
{
    case NONE    = 'none';
    case COMPANY = 'company';
    case USER    = 'user';
}

Create a concrete activity

Extend AbstractActivity, set the GROUP constant, and implement parameters():

use KolayBi\ActivityLog\AbstractActivity;

class CompanyCreatedActivity extends AbstractActivity
{
    protected const MyActivityGroup GROUP = MyActivityGroup::COMPANY;

    public function __construct(
        private readonly Company $company,
    ) {}

    protected function parameters(): array
    {
        return [
            'company_name' => $this->company->name,
            'company_type' => $this->company->company_type->value,
        ];
    }
}

Log an activity

CompanyCreatedActivity::with($company)->log();

The log() method dispatches the record creation as a queued closure. Context (creator, tenant) is resolved eagerly before dispatch, since Auth/Request aren't available inside queued closures.

Context provider

Implement ActivityContextProvider to supply creator and tenant IDs:

use KolayBi\ActivityLog\Contracts\ActivityContextProvider;

class MyContextProvider implements ActivityContextProvider
{
    public function creatorId(): int|string|null
    {
        return Auth::id();
    }

    public function tenantId(): int|string|null
    {
        return tenant()?->id;
    }
}

Register it in your config:

'context_provider' => \App\Providers\MyContextProvider::class,

Or bind it directly in a service provider:

$this->app->singleton(
    \KolayBi\ActivityLog\Contracts\ActivityContextProvider::class,
    \App\Providers\MyContextProvider::class,
);

Entry resolution (i18n)

The Activity model provides an entry attribute that resolves a human-readable string via Laravel's translation system:

// Translation key: activities.App\Activities\CompanyCreatedActivity
// lang/en/activities.php:
// 'App\Activities\CompanyCreatedActivity' => ':company_name (:company_type) was created.',

$activity->entry; // "Acme Corp (regular) was created."

Parameters that contain enum references are resolved automatically:

protected function parameters(): array
{
    return [
        'status' => [
            'enum'     => Status::class,
            'value'    => $this->model->status->value,
            'function' => 'label',
        ],
    ];
}

Custom Activity model

Extend the package model and update the config:

use KolayBi\ActivityLog\Models\Activity as BaseActivity;

class Activity extends BaseActivity
{
    protected $connection = 'my_connection';

    protected function casts(): array
    {
        return array_merge(parent::casts(), [
            'group' => MyActivityGroup::class,
        ]);
    }
}

'model' => \App\Models\Activity::class,

Database schema

Column	Type	Notes
id	ULID	Primary key
created_at	Timestamp
updated_at	Timestamp
deleted_at	Timestamp	Soft deletes
tenant_id	String (nullable)	Indexed
creator_id	String (nullable)	Indexed
group	String	Indexed
type	String	Indexed, activity class FQCN
parameters	JSON	Translation parameters

Testing

composer test

Changelog

Please see CHANGELOG for more information on what has changed recently.

Contributing

Please see CONTRIBUTING for details.

License

Please see License File for more information.