Cake Tracking Plugin

Description

The Cake Tracking Plugin provides Middleware which will record all Request made to a web application. All logging can be customized per application but there is also a default logger which will write to the file system.

In addition, external IP addresses can be blacklisted from the site by adding the address to a blacklist file.

Installation

Add the package to your CakePHP projects composer.json

composer require travy/cake-tracking:1.0

Next, be sure to add the plugin to the config/bootstrap.php file by executing the following command in the command prompt

bin/cake plugin load cake-tracking

Now the Middleware can be loaded into the application pipeline by appending it to the MiddlewareQueue found in `src/Application.php'

class Application extends BaseApplication
{
    public function middleware($middlewareQueue)
    {
        $middlewareQueue
            ->add(ErrorHandlerMiddleware::class)
            ->add(AssetMiddleware::class)
            ->add(new RoutingMiddleware($this))
                
            //  add the TrackingMiddleware to the queue
            ->add(new \CakeTracking\Middleware\TrackingMiddleware());

        return $middlewareQueue;
    }
}

Finally, you should be able to add any custom configuration necessary to complete the environment.

If you want to use a custom Logger or blacklisting solution (perhaps to store data in a database) then you just need to create a class which implements either TrackingLoggerInterface or BlacklistRepositoryInterface. Then before adding the Middleware to the MiddlewareQueue, you can specify your custom classes using the built in setter calls.

class Application extends BaseApplication
{
    public function middleware($middlewareQueue)
    {
        //  supply the custom classes to the TrackingMiddleware object
        $trackingMiddleware = new \CakeTracking\Middleware\TrackingMiddleware();
        $trackingMiddleware->setBlacklistRepository(new BlacklistDatabaseRepository($configs));
        $trackingMiddleware->setLoggingOperation(new TrackingDatabaseLoggin($configs));
    
        $middlewareQueue
            ->add(ErrorHandlerMiddleware::class)
            ->add(AssetMiddleware::class)
            ->add(new RoutingMiddleware($this))
                
            //  supply the instantiated tracker to the queue
            ->add($trackingMiddleware);

        return $middlewareQueue;
    }
}

Configurations

The following configurations are optional but will be useful for system setup.

In config/app.php add the following:

'CakeTracking' => [
    'LogFile' => LOGS . 'bamboo.txt',
    'Blacklist' => LOGS . 'blacklist.txt',
],

The LogFile configuration will specify where all Requests should be logged.

Blacklist specifies the location of the blacklist on the system.