Laravel 9 Check User Login, Online Status & Last Seen

In this tutorial you will learn about the Laravel 9 Check User Login, Online Status & Last Seen and its application with practical example.

In this Laravel 9 Check User Login, Online Status & Last Seen tutorial I’ll show you how to check User Online, last seen and Not online in Laravel 9 using custom middleware. In this tutorial you will learn to check user is online or not in laravel. In this step by step guide we will be creating a custom middleware to check User Online, Not online and last seen.

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How to Check User Login Online Status & Last Seen in Laravel 9?

In this step by step tutorial I will demonstrate you with example How to Check User Login Online Status and Last Seen in Laravel 9. Please follow the instruction given below:

Install Laravel 9
Connecting Database
Generate Auth Scaffolding

Add Column in User Table
Create a Middleware
Register Middleware in Kernel

Create Controller by Artisan
Check Online Status in Blade File
Run Development Server

Install Laravel 9

First of all we need to create a fresh laravel project, download and install Laravel 9 using the below command

 composer create-project --prefer-dist laravel/laravel blog

1	composer create-project --prefer-dist laravel/laravel blog

Connecting Database

Now, lets create a MySQL database and connect it with laravel application. After creating database we need to set database credential in application’s .env file.

DB_CONNECTION=mysql 
 DB_HOST=127.0.0.1 
 DB_PORT=3306 
 DB_DATABASE=here your database name here
 DB_USERNAME=here database username here
 DB_PASSWORD=here database password here

DB_CONNECTION=mysql

DB_HOST=127.0.0.1

DB_PORT=3306

DB_DATABASE=here your database name here

DB_USERNAME=here database username here

DB_PASSWORD=here database password here

Generate Auth Scaffolding

In this step we will be generating laravel’s auth scaffolding using following command:

# install laravel ui
composer require laravel/ui --dev
# auth scaffolding
php artisan ui vue --auth
# finally run
npm i && npm run dev

# install laravel ui

composer require laravel/ui --dev

# auth scaffolding

php artisan ui vue --auth

# finally run

npm i && npm run dev

Add Column in User Table

You need to add one column in the users table called last_seen. So, navigate database>migrations folder and open create_users_table file. Then update the last_seen column in this file as follow:

public function up()
{
    Schema::create('users', function (Blueprint $table) {
        $table->bigIncrements('id');
        $table->string('name');
        $table->string('email')->unique();
        $table->timestamp('email_verified_at')->nullable();
        $table->string('password');
        $table->timestamp('last_seen')->nullable();
        $table->rememberToken();
        $table->timestamps();
    });
}

public function up()

{

Schema::create('users', function (Blueprint $table) {

$table->bigIncrements('id');

$table->string('name');

$table->string('email')->unique();

$table->timestamp('email_verified_at')->nullable();

$table->string('password');

$table->timestamp('last_seen')->nullable();

$table->rememberToken();

$table->timestamps();

});

}

Now, run the migration to create database table using following artisan command:

php artisan migrate

1	php artisan migrate

Create a Middleware

In this step we will creating custom middleware using following command:

php artisan make:middleware ActivityByUser

1	php artisan make:middleware ActivityByUser

Now, go to app>Http>Middleware and open ActivityByUser.php middleware. Then put the following code into your middleware file:

<?php
namespace App\Http\Middleware;
use App\Models\User;
use Closure;
use Auth;
use Cache;
use Carbon\Carbon;
class ActivityByUser
{
    public function handle($request, Closure $next)
    {
        if (Auth::check()) {
            $expiresAt = Carbon::now()->addMinutes(1); // keep online for 1 min
            Cache::put('user-is-online-' . Auth::user()->id, true, $expiresAt);
            // last seen
            User::where('id', Auth::user()->id)->update(['last_seen' => (new \DateTime())->format("Y-m-d H:i:s")]);
        }
        return $next($request);
    }
}

<?php

namespace App\Http\Middleware;

use App\Models\User;

use Closure;

use Auth;

use Cache;

use Carbon\Carbon;

class ActivityByUser

{

public function handle($request, Closure $next)

{

if (Auth::check()) {

$expiresAt = Carbon::now()->addMinutes(1); // keep online for 1 min

Cache::put('user-is-online-' . Auth::user()->id, true, $expiresAt);

// last seen

User::where('id', Auth::user()->id)->update(['last_seen' => (new \DateTime())->format("Y-m-d H:i:s")]);

}

return $next($request);

}

Register Middleware in Kernel

In this step, navigate app>Http and open Kernel.php. And register ActivityByUser.php middleware in the kernal.php file. You can see as follow:

protected $middlewareGroups = [
    'web' => [
        \App\Http\Middleware\EncryptCookies::class,
        \Illuminate\Cookie\Middleware\AddQueuedCookiesToResponse::class,
        \Illuminate\Session\Middleware\StartSession::class,
        // \Illuminate\Session\Middleware\AuthenticateSession::class,
        \Illuminate\View\Middleware\ShareErrorsFromSession::class,
        \App\Http\Middleware\VerifyCsrfToken::class,
        \Illuminate\Routing\Middleware\SubstituteBindings::class,
        \App\Http\Middleware\ActivityByUser::class,
    ],
    'api' => [
        'throttle:60,1',
        \Illuminate\Routing\Middleware\SubstituteBindings::class,
    ],
];

protected $middlewareGroups = [

'web' => [

\App\Http\Middleware\EncryptCookies::class,

\Illuminate\Cookie\Middleware\AddQueuedCookiesToResponse::class,

\Illuminate\Session\Middleware\StartSession::class,

// \Illuminate\Session\Middleware\AuthenticateSession::class,

\Illuminate\View\Middleware\ShareErrorsFromSession::class,

\App\Http\Middleware\VerifyCsrfToken::class,

\Illuminate\Routing\Middleware\SubstituteBindings::class,

\App\Http\Middleware\ActivityByUser::class,

'api' => [

'throttle:60,1',

\Illuminate\Routing\Middleware\SubstituteBindings::class,

];

Create Controller by Artisan

Now, lets create a controller named UserController using command given below –

php artisan make:controller UserController

1	php artisan make:controller UserController

Now, go to app>Http>Controllers and open UserController.php file. Then update the following method into your UserController.php file:

<?php
namespace App\Http\Controllers;
use App\Models\User;
use Carbon\Carbon;
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use Cache;
class UserController extends Controller
{
    /**
     * Show user online status.
     */
    public function userOnlineStatus()
    {
        $users = User::all();
        foreach ($users as $user) {
            if (Cache::has('user-is-online-' . $user->id))
                echo $user->name . " is online. Last seen: " . Carbon::parse($user->last_seen)->diffForHumans() . " <br>";
            else
                echo $user->name . " is offline. Last seen: " . Carbon::parse($user->last_seen)->diffForHumans() . " <br>";
        }
    }
}

<?php

namespace App\Http\Controllers;

use App\Models\User;

use Carbon\Carbon;

use Illuminate\Http\Request;

use Cache;

class UserController extends Controller

{

/**

* Show user online status.

public function userOnlineStatus()

{

$users = User::all();

foreach ($users as $user) {

if (Cache::has('user-is-online-' . $user->id))

echo $user->name . " is online. Last seen: " . Carbon::parse($user->last_seen)->diffForHumans() . " <br>";

else

echo $user->name . " is offline. Last seen: " . Carbon::parse($user->last_seen)->diffForHumans() . " <br>";

}

After this, we need to define routes in “routes/web.php” file. Lets open “routes/web.php” file and add the following routes in it.

routes/web.php

use App\Http\Controllers\UserController;
 
 
Route::get('status', [UserController::class, 'userOnlineStatus']);

use App\Http\Controllers\UserController;

Route::get('status', [UserController::class, 'userOnlineStatus']);

Check Online Status in Blade File

@if(Cache::has('user-is-online-' . $user->id))
    <span class="text-success">Online</span>
@else
    <span class="text-secondary">Offline</span>
@endif

@if(Cache::has('user-is-online-' . $user->id))

<span class="text-success">Online</span>

@else

<span class="text-secondary">Offline</span>

@endif

Go to resources>views and open home.blade.php. Then update the following code into home.blade.php.

@extends('layouts.app')
@section('content')
    <div class="container">
        <div class="row justify-content-center">
            <div class="col-md-8">
                <div class="card">
                    <div class="card-header">Users</div>
                    <div class="card-body">
                        @php $users = DB::table('users')->get(); @endphp
                        <div class="container">
                            <table class="table table-bordered">
                                <thead>
                                <tr>
                                    <th>Name</th>
                                    <th>Email</th>
                                    <th>Status</th>
                                    <th>Last Seen</th>
                                </tr>
                                </thead>
                                <tbody>
                                @foreach($users as $user)
                                    <tr>
                                        <td>{{$user->name}}</td>
                                        <td>{{$user->email}}</td>
                                        <td>
                                            @if(Cache::has('user-is-online-' . $user->id))
                                                <span class="text-success">Online</span>
                                            @else
                                                <span class="text-secondary">Offline</span>
                                            @endif
                                        </td>
                                        <td>{{ \Carbon\Carbon::parse($user->last_seen)->diffForHumans() }}</td>
                                    </tr>
                                @endforeach
                                </tbody>
                            </table>
                        </div>
                    </div>
                </div>
            </div>
        </div>
    </div>
@endsection

@extends('layouts.app')

@section('content')

<div class="card-header">Users</div>

@php $users = DB::table('users')->get(); @endphp

<thead>

<tr>

<th>Email</th>

<th>Status</th>

</tr>

</thead>

<tbody>

@foreach($users as $user)

<tr>

<td>{{$user->email}}</td>

<td>

@if(Cache::has('user-is-online-' . $user->id))

<span class="text-success">Online</span>

@else

<span class="text-secondary">Offline</span>

@endif

</td>

<td>{{ \Carbon\Carbon::parse($user->last_seen)->diffForHumans() }}</td>

</tr>

@endforeach

</tbody>

</table>

</div>

@endsection

Run Development Server

Now we are ready to run our example so lets start the development server using following artisan command –

php artisan serve

1	php artisan serve

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