Measures

This plugin allows you to create, update and display any measures you want on a model, some examples could be:

• Blog post's views
• Number of forum topic creation from a member
• Counting successive daily-connexion of a member
• API's resource fetches count
• ...

This plugin is intended to be used in more complex plugins or as is to register some statistics over your website's events.

Measurable Behavior

You can add the Measurable Behavior (think of it as a Trait) to any model you want. Using Storm Extension.

Extending existing models from a Plugin registration file:

Winter\Blog\Models\Post::extend(function ($postModel) {
    $postModel->implement[] = 'SunLab.Measures.Behaviors.Measurable';
});

Or directly to your Plugin's model:

class Link extends Model
{
    public $implement = ['SunLab.Measures.Behaviors.Measurable'];
    //...
}

[Experimental feature] Plugin's native and generic event listener

For the most basic events, you won't even need to write a line of code. This plugin creates a generic event listener which can handle the most basics use cases. Example here, it will listen for all the model.afterCreate event over the Winter\Forum\Models\Topic and increment a topic_created measure on the logged-in user.

Create/Increment a measure

Once you've added the Measurable Behavior to a model, you can use the model's method incrementMeasure.

$post->incrementMeasure('views');

// Optional amount of incrementation can be passed
$post->incrementMeasure('views', 5);

Note: You don't have to process any kind of initialization of the measure, just use it.

Practical example 1, count how many times a user edit his posts

// In Plugin.php file
function boot()
{
    // Add the Measurable behavior to User model
    Winter\User\Models\User::extend(function($user) {
        // Verify it has not been already added by another plugin
        if (!$user->isClassExtendedWith('SunLab.Measures.Behaviors.Measurable')) {
            $user->extendClassWith('SunLab.Measures.Behaviors.Measurable');
        }
    });

    Winter\Forum\Models\Post::extend(function($post) {
        // Bind listener to update event
        $post->bindEvent('model.afterUpdate', function() use ($model) {
            // Increment measure on the member
            $post->member->incrementMeasure('post_edit');
        });
    });
}

Practical example 2, creating a post views in Winter.Blog:

title = "Blog post page"
url = "/blog/article/:slug"
layout = "default"
is_hidden = 0

[blogPost]
slug = "{{ :slug }}"
categoryPage = "blog/category"
==
function onEnd() {
    $this->blogPost->post->incrementMeasure('views');
}
==
{% component 'blogPost' %}

Bulk incrementation

You can increment multiple models measure at once, this is useful when you want to measure the amount of models fetches from an API.

To use Bulk incrementation, you need to pass a Builder instance of your query to the MeasureManager:

// Passing to the MeasureManager a Builder instance
$products = Product::where('name', 'like', '%shoes%');
MeasureManager::incrementMeasure($products, 'appearedInSearchResults');

return new JsonResponse([
    'products' => $products->get()
]);

Orphan measures

For some reason, you may want to increment some orphan measures:

    // Count how many users log-in
    Event::listen('winter.user.login', function() {
        MeasureManager::incrementOrphanMeasure('users_login');

        // incrementMeasure also support orphan measure.
        // Same as:
        MeasureManager::incrementMeasure('users_login');
    });

Decrement or reset a measure

The plugin support both decrement and reset on measures, related to model or orphan measure:

    // On model implementing Measurable
    $model->decrementMeasure('post_edit');
    $model->decrementMeasure('post_edit', 3); // An amount of decrementation can be passed

    // With orphan measures
    MeasureManager::decrementOrphanMeasure('users_login');
    MeasureManager::decrementOrphanMeasure('users_login', 3); // An amount of decrementation can be passed

Displaying a measure

To display the measure from a model, just use the getMeasure or getAmountOf methods on it. getMeasure returns a Measure model which contains an amount property

// From a backend controller/view
$post = Post::first();
$views = $post->getMeasure('views')->amount;
// Same as:
$views = $post->getAmountOf('views');

// From a frontend Twig block
{{ post.getMeasure('view').amount }}
// Same as:
{{ post.getAmountOf('view') }}

Events

As said earlier, this plugin gets really powerful and handy to use in other plugins. Events are fired on increment, decrement and reset measures. All the events contains the model (null for orphan measures), the measure object at its new state, and the amount. As an example, you can take a look into SunLab/Gamification for a full example:

// Plugin.php
Event::listen('sunlab.measures.incrementMeasure', function ($model, $measure) {
    // Filter the model we need
    if (!$model instanceof User) {
        return;
    }

    // Process some custom logic depending on the measure name and current amount
    // In that case, SunLab/Gamification assign "badges" depending on some measures incrementation
    $correspondingBadges =
        Badge::where([['measure_name', $measure->name], ['amount_needed', '<=', $measure->amount]])
            ->whereDoesntHave('users', function ($query) use ($model) {
                $query->where('user_id', $model->id);
            })->get();

    if (!blank($correspondingBadges)) {
        $now = now();
        $attachedBadges = array_combine(
            $correspondingBadges->pluck('id')->toArray(),
            array_fill(0, count($correspondingBadges), ['updated_at' => $now, 'created_at' => $now])
        );

        $model->badges()->attach($attachedBadges);
    }
});

MeasureManager and models

The MeasureManager static class handles orphan and bulk measures modification, but can also increment model measure:

// Using the MeasureManager static helpers:
use SunLab\Measures\Classes\MeasureManager;
    $post = \Winter\Blog\Models\Post::first();
    // Increment a model's measure
    MeasureManager::incrementMeasure($post, 'views');
    MeasureManager::incrementMeasure($post, 'views', 5);
    // Decrement:
    MeasureManager::decrementMeasure($model, 'views');
    MeasureManager::decrementMeasure($model, 'views', 3);
    // Reset
    MeasureManager::resetMeasure('views');
    MeasureManager::resetMeasure('views', 2);

TODO-List:

In a near future, I'll add some feature such as:

• Bulk incrementation from a model collection instead of the Builder
• A ReportWidget displaying some specific measures