Installation VentureCraft/revisionable

[GraveStone]

For laravel 5.2 is necessary install the Sentry by Cartalyst or Sentinel by Cartalyst to use the VentureCraft/revisionable?
I have install the and configure the VentureCraft/revisionable and don't work.

[naveensnayak]

I am also trying to get this to work on Laravel 5.3 - its a plain install
followed instructions to install package
created migrations
verified that I can update a table in by database
using DB::table(tableName)->where(condition)->update()
nothing gets stored in the revisions table

is there anything additional to be done ?
or do we need to explicitly call some methods to save the revisions ?

[thorerik]

@GraveStone I got it in a (mostly) vanilla Laravel 5.3 install, what are you doing and how is it failing?
Have you run the necessary migrations?
Have you added the trait to your model?

@naveensnayak you shouldn't use an instance of DB but update it via your models.

eg.

$user = User::find(1);
$user->username = "foo";
$user->save();

this should add a revision to your table.

[naveensnayak]

@thorerik - I debugged the code and figured that out - it would be nice to mention this in the documentation as there are many ways to update the table. We have a mix of old code that does not use models

[thorerik]

@naveensnayak I thought it was pretty obvious since you're adding it to your eloquent models that you should use the models to update the rows. If you think there's something to be desired in the docs you can probably open a PR, I'm sure VentureCraft is more than happy to accept.

[northkode]

I have some code that is not updating my revisions table either..

here is the sample code

<?php

	namespace App\Models;
	use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;

	class Purchase extends Model {
		use \Venturecraft\Revisionable\RevisionableTrait;

		public static function boot() {
	          parent::boot();
	        }

		protected $table = 'purchases';
		protected $fillable = [ 'user_id','amt','purchase_options_id','points'];
		protected $appends = ['user','type','staff'];

		public function getTypeAttribute() {
	           return PurchaseOption::find($this->purchase_options_id);
	        }

		public function getStaffAttribute() {
	            return User::find($this->admin_id);
	        }

		public function getUserAttribute() {
	            return User::find($this->user_id);
	        }
	}

?>

no errors.. all updates work. But just nothing in the revisions table. All migrations have run.