How to Implement Post View Counter in Laravel

Do you want to laravel track page views? In this tutorial, we will see visitor counter laravel 9 application. We need to see how our page views. So let's see how we can implement how to count a single post view in Laravel 9 application.

We can implement page view counter in laravel using cyrildewit laravel page view counter package. But in this tutorial, I do not use the package. When a user can click a single post link and will go to the single post page controller then we will just increment our database field view_count. See the below code -

app/Http/Controller/PostController.php

class PostController extends Controller
{
    public function post(post $post)
    {
           $Key = 'blog' . $post->id;
             if (\Session::has($Key)) {
 
             \DB::table('posts')
                ->where('id', $post->id)
                ->increment('view_count', 1);
              \Session::put($Key, 1);
            }
 
 
          // Write your code which you want
      }
}

Or simply use this:

class PostController extends Controller
{
    public function post(post $post)
    {

         \DB::table('posts')
               ->where('id', $post->id)
               ->increment('view_count', 1);
          }
 
          // Write your code which you want
      }
}

Look, here we just increment our view_count field when a user clicks a post and visits a single page. That's it.