Our Laravel Nova tool

Nova is first party Laravel package that makes it easy to add an admin section to your Laravel application.

Our nova-ohdear-tool package contains a tool that will display all check results of an Oh Dear monitored website.

Here's what it looks like in action.

Install the Nova tool

You can install the package in a Laravel application that uses Nova via composer:

composer require ohdearapp/nova-ohdear-tool

Next up, you must register the tool with Nova. This is typically done in the register method of the NovaServiceProvider.

// in app/Providers/NovaServiceProvder.php

// ...

public function register()
{
    Nova::tools([
        // ...
        new \OhDear\OhDearTool\OhDearTool(),
    ]);
}

Afterwards you must publish the config file:

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="OhDear\OhDearTool\OhDearToolServiceProvider"

This is the content of the published config file config/nova-ohdear-tool.php.

return [
    /*
     * A valid API token for your Oh Dear account. Instructions on how to get a
     * token can be found on this page: https://ohdear.app/docs/api/authentication
     */
    'api_token' => env('OH_DEAR_API_TOKEN'),

    /*
     * The id of the monitor you want to display in the tool.
     * You can get the id of the monitor on the settings screen of a site on Oh Dear
     */
    'monitor_id' => env('OH_DEAR_monitor_id'),
];

These values can be stored in your .env environment file.

OH_DEAR_API_TOKEN=
OH_DEAR_monitor_id=

If you cache your configuration files, don't forget to renew your cache with php artisan config:cache.

Using the Nova tool

After the installation you can find an "Oh Dear" menu item in your Nova app to see the broken links and mixed content of your site.