Merge pull request #3 from patrickomeara/master

Add grace time for updating

src/Http/Middleware/LastActivity.php

@@ -35,9 +35,14 @@ public function handle($request, Closure $next)
      *
      * @param Model $user
      */
-    private function updateLastActivityField(Model $user)
+    protected function updateLastActivityField(Model $user)
     {
         $lastActivityField = config('last-activity.field');
+        $graceTime = config('last-activity.grace_time');
+
+        if ($graceTime > 0 && $user->$lastActivityField && ($user->$lastActivityField)->addSeconds($graceTime) > now()) {
+            return;
+        }
 
         $this->hideFromEvents($user, function() use ($user, $lastActivityField) {
             $user->$lastActivityField = now();
@@ -53,7 +58,7 @@ private function updateLastActivityField(Model $user)
      * @param callable $callback
      * @return mixed
      */
-    private function hideFromEvents(Model $model, callable $callback)
+    protected function hideFromEvents(Model $model, callable $callback)
     {
         $dispatcher = $model::getEventDispatcher();
         $model::unsetEventDispatcher();
@@ -64,4 +69,4 @@ private function hideFromEvents(Model $model, callable $callback)
 
         return $result;
     }
-}
+}

src/config/last-activity.php

@@ -5,4 +5,10 @@
     // Field in which the last activity date time will be stored.
     'field' => 'last_activity',
 
-];
+    /**
+     * The amount of seconds the field is considered stale and should update.
+     * This prevents a write on every request, particularly useful with read replica databases.
+     * Set to 0 to disable.
+     */
+    'grace_time' => 0,
+];