Laravel Controllers __construct Issue - php

Question

So I am having a few dramas with my controllers. They seem to operate properly, however they don't seem to use __construct() at all in any of the controllers.. I'm trying to use this to update our users table to show last activity.
<?php
namespace App\Http\Controllers;
use Illuminate\Routing\Controller as BaseController;
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use App\Helpers\UserHelper;
use App\Helpers\ForumHelper;
use App\Helpers\ShopHelper;
use Auth;
use Image;
use App\User;
use DB;
use Hash;
use File;
class AdminController extends BaseController
{
public function __construct() {
if ($_SERVER["HTTP_CF_CONNECTING_IP"]) {
$_SERVER["REMOTE_ADDR"] = $_SERVER["HTTP_CF_CONNECTING_IP"];
}
if(Auth::check()) {
$time = strtotime("now");
DB::table('users')->where('userid', Auth::user()->userid)->update(['lastactivity' => $time]);
}
}
Any idea what I can do to check and try and get it working again?
I'm running Laravel Framework 5.4.28
A project I did similar on was running Laravel Framework version 5.2.45 and worked fine when I was doing that so I'm confused why this is happening on a newer version.
Any ideas how I can otherwise go about implementing the DB Update when loading stuff from my controllers?

Answer 1

If you want an activity tracker then add a web route middleware:
class ActivityTrackerMiddleware {
public function handle($request,$next) {
if ($request->user()) {
$request->user()->lastactivity = Carbon::now();
$request->user()->save();
}
return $next($request);
}
}
Add this in your web middleware:
'web' => [ ...
StartSession::class,
ActivityTrackerMiddleware::class,
...
];
You can also limit it to the admin controller if you prefer.