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How to get unique visitor in laravel

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One way to implement a simple visitor counter in Laravel is to use the Request facade to get the IP address of the visitor and store it in a database table. Here's an example implementation:

Create a new migration to create a visitors table:

php artisan make:migration create_visitors_table --create=visitors

Note: If you want to create Model And migration with same artisan comment follow below command

php artisan make:model Visitor -m

In the migration file, define the table schema:

public function up()
{
Schema::create('visitors', function (Blueprint $table) {
$table->id();
$table->string('ip_address')->unique();

$table->integer('visits')->default(0);
$table->timestamps();
});
}

Run the migration to create the visitors table:

php artisan migrate

In your controller method, use the Request facade to get the visitor's IP address and store it in the visitors table:

use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use App\Models\Visitor;

public function index(Request $request)
{
$ip = $request->ip();
$visitor = Visitor::firstOrCreate(['ip_address' => $ip]);
$visitor->increment('visits');
$visitor->save();

$visitors = Visitor::count();

return view('welcome', compact('visitors'));
}

In your view, display the visitor count:

<p>Visitors: {{ $visitors }}</p>

I Hope it will help................

Thanks