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This is NOT a first-party package. This package adds Visitor and Persona concepts to your Laravel application.

Requirements: Tested on Laravel 12. It should work on lower versions as well.

Note: Docs could use more information, but I made this package mainly for myself. If you happen to use it, hit me up, and I'll update the docs with better explanations.

Visitor: Non-registered user which still needs to be tracked and stored into the database. This is achieved using UUID stored in a cookie.

Persona: Umbrella model for Users and Visitors. When calling request()->persona(), it will return currently logged in User if it exists. If not, it will return currently tracked Visitor if it exists. If not, it will return null.

Installation:

• Run composer require gtcrais/laravel-persona
• Run php artisan laravel-persona:install
• Add ... implements GTCrais\LaravelPersona\Models\Contracts\Persona Contract to your User model
• Add use GTCrais\LaravelPersona\Models\Concerns\UserPersona Concern to your User model
• Migrate the database
• Register middleware:

use App\Http\Middleware\AuthPersona;
use App\Http\Middleware\EnsurePersonaExists;
use App\Http\Middleware\ResolvePersona;

$middleware->appendToGroup('web', [ResolvePersona::class]);
$middleware->appendToGroup('api', [ResolvePersona::class]);
$middleware->alias(['ensurePersonaExists' => EnsurePersonaExists::class]);
$middleware->alias(['authPersona' => AuthPersona::class]);

• Upon successful login:

use App\Http\Middleware\Concerns\InteractsWithVisitor;

...

if ($visitor = auth()->guard('web')->user()->visitor) {
    $this->setVisitorUuidCookie($visitor->uuid);
    $this->injectVisitorData(request(), $visitor);
}

• Upon successful registration:

use App\Http\Middleware\Concerns\InteractsWithVisitor;

...

$visitor = $this->optionallyCreateVisitor();

$this->associateVisitorWithUser($visitor, $user);
$this->injectVisitorData(request(), $visitor);