How to add website pages or posts views counter in laravel

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Laravel posts count example

If you want to count every post page view when it load than see our example. we create a post_counts table and save every post counts when user load your website page. Every time user load page and our query increase counts by one.

<?php

namespace App\Models;

use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Factories\HasFactory;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;

class Post extends Model
{
  use HasFactory;
  protected $guarded = [];

  public function viewCount(){
    return $this->hasOne(PostCount::class, 'post_id');
  }
}

<?php

namespace App\Models;

use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Factories\HasFactory;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;

class PostCount extends Model
{
  use HasFactory;
  protected $guarded = [];
}

<?php

namespace App\Http\Controllers;
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use App\Models\Post;
use App\Models\PostCount;

class PostController extends Controller{
  public function show(){
    $post = Post::where('status','1')->first();
    $count = $post->viewCount;
    if($count){
        $count->count = $count->count + 1;
    }else{
        $count = new Count;
        $count->count = "1";
    }
    $post->viewCount()->save($count);
  }
}