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1. j8h9
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #
   

   Can someone point me to a simple hack for capturing users last login? I added a column to the user table to hold the value, I having difficulty understanding where to hack the code to update this col when user logs in... Is it me or is much of the core code not indented/aligned per common standards? Thanks to all who respond! WordPress is the best.

2. s_ha_dum
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #
   

   Catch it with the 'wp_login' hook.

   add_action('wp_login','your_function_name');

   'your_function_name' is the name of the function that will actually handle insert. It should look something like this:

   function my_last_login($login) {
       global $user_ID;
       $user = get_userdatabylogin($login);
       update_usermeta( $user->ID, 'my_last_login', time() );
     }

   My function uses the wp_usermeta table to hold the data, rather than using separate column.

3. lokrin2000
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #
   

   I use two plugins for this.

   The first one lists each user once with their last login.

   login-logger

   The second one lists every login by every user.

   log-user-access

4. shetakaey
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #
   

   Awesome, lokrin2000! Thank you for the links.

5. flatsphere
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #
   

   Hi apljdi, your solution looks like the perfect one for me, can you please let me know which files need these snippets?

   Many thanks

6. Tosh
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #
   

   @apljdi That's great. I want to do something like this:

   If the time since last login was say 1 month run this action. How would I check the time?

7. David Cowgill
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #
   

   apljdi, that's a great idea. Thanks for sharing. I ended up creating two functions (based off your original one) and pasted them in my functions.php file.

   function appthemes_last_login($login) {
       global $user_ID;
       $user = get_userdatabylogin($login);
       update_usermeta($user->ID, 'last_login', current_time('mysql'));
   }
   add_action('wp_login','appthemes_last_login');
   
   function appthemes_get_last_login($user_id) {
       $last_login = get_user_meta($user_id, 'last_login', true);
       $date_format = get_option('date_format') . ' ' . get_option('time_format');
       $the_last_login = mysql2date($date_format, $last_login, false);
       echo $the_last_login;
   }

   Then to call this from any of your theme pages, just paste in this code:

   <?php
   global $userdata;
   get_currentuserinfo();
   ?>
   
   <?php _e('You last logged in at:','appthemes'); ?> <?php appthemes_get_last_login($userdata->ID); ?>

   This makes it easy to pull the last login date and also it also uses the WordPress date/time formats you set on your blog settings page. Hope that helps you all.

   ~David
   AppThemes

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