Count active Cache sessions Laravel. (Advice Needed) - php

Question

Running into a problem here and been trying to find a solution for days now.
I want to be able to count the number of Online users in my Laravel application.
I already have build in a system for showing the online and offline user status in my application in the admin panel.
However i am trying to get a counter to just show the numerical value of online users.
Under is the code i used for showing the online offline status.
But now im trying to call while using the count(Cache::has('user-is-online')
However i cant get it working.
Hope somebody can help the way i can call this.
For what i did manage to build i used the following:
Created middleware:
<?php
namespace App\Http\Middleware;
use Closure;
use Auth;
use Cache;
use Carbon\Carbon;
class LastUserActivity
{
/**
* Handle an incoming request.
*
* #param \Illuminate\Http\Request $request
* #param \Closure $next
* #return mixed
*/
public function handle($request, Closure $next)
{
if (Auth::check()) {
$expiresAt = Carbon::now()->addMinutes(1);
Cache::put('user-is-online-' . Auth::user()->id, true, $expiresAt);
}
return $next($request);
}
}
Created controller:
<?php
namespace App\Http\Controllers;
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use DB;
use Cache;
class UserController extends Controller
{
/**
* Show user online status.
*
*/
public function userOnlineStatus()
{
$users = DB::table('users')->get();
foreach ($users as $user) {
if (Cache::has('user-is-online-' . $user->id))
echo "User " . $user->name . " is online.";
else
echo "User " . $user->name . " is offline.";
}
}
}
Created route:
Route::get('/check', 'StatusController#userOnlineStatus');
And i call it with:
<td>
#if(Cache::has('user-is-online-' . $user->id))
<span class="badge badge-warning rounded-0 w-100">Online</span>
#else
<span class="badge badge-danger rounded-0 w-100">Offline</span>
#endif
</td>

Answer 1

Because you've unique key for the each user in the cache. You can't find it by partial key in your case. You can keep a counter like you're doing in the userOnlineStatus function and print the results after that. Look below.
/**
* Show number of online users.
*
*/
public function numberOfOnlineUsers()
{
$users = DB::table('users')->get();
$counter = 0;
foreach ($users as $user) {
if (Cache::has('user-is-online-' . $user->id)) {
$counter++;
}
}
//Passing $counter to the view
return view("your_blade_file_name", ['counter' => $counter]);
}
To access in blade file
The number of online users are {{ $counter }}