Get online users in laravel

Question

I have one user for login to demo of my script.
I want get how many people online now.
I use laravel 5.2
What am I do?

Answer 1

You could keep sessions in a DB and use last_activity column to determine how many users are currently online.

https://laravel.com/docs/5.1/session#introduction

Answer 2

There is a laravel plugin to achieve this. here's the link :https://github.com/thomastkim/laravel-online-users