[Resolved] Best way to save user’s last login date?

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[jeffS-2]

Tell us what you are trying to do?
When a user logs in, I want to save the current date/time in a custom field in their CPT profile.

Is there any documentation that you are following?
Not really. I thought this would be simple using wp_login hook, but the hook never seems to fire.

I checked online for help but only found same problem I have with wp_login not firing.

My functions.php code:

function store_member_last_login() {
	if ( is_user_logged_in() ) {
		$current_user = wp_get_current_user();	
		//  Get the member profile ID from user_meta (stored in WP user profile custom field) 
		$mbrProfileId = get_user_meta( $current_user->ID, 'wpcf-member-profile-id' , true );
		date_default_timezone_set('America/Los_Angeles');
		$todaysDateTime = date("M j, Y, g:i:s A");
		// update profile with new login date/time
		update_post_meta($mbrProfileId, 'wpcf-member-last-login', $todaysDateTime); 
	} else {
		echo '<br/>No Login info found.<br/>';
		die;
	}
}
add_action( 'wp_login', 'store_member_last_login' );

[Nigel]

Hi Jeff

I just ran some quick tests to send a message to my debug.log whenever someone logs in, using the wp_login hook, and it worked fine, both when using the standard WP login form, and when using a Toolset custom login form (which I expected, as under the hood it uses the same standard WP functions).

The wp_login hook has the user_login and the user object available as arguments, so your code can be simplified.

The official hook documentation includes a link to a post about doing exactly what you want, the only thing you need to change is the post meta key:

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[jeffS-2]

My issue is resolved now. Thank you!

Here is my final functions.php code in my child theme folder:

function store_member_last_login( $user_login, $user ) {
     date_default_timezone_set('America/Los_Angeles');   // need to set timezone first
     $todaysDateTime = date("M j, Y, g:i:s A");          // get the current time
     // get the member-profile post_id corresponding to this user
     $mbrProfileId = get_user_meta( $user->ID, 'wpcf-member-profile-id' , true );
     // update the custom field "member-last-login" in CPT member-profile
     update_post_meta($mbrProfileId, 'wpcf-member-last-login', $todaysDateTime); 
}
add_action( 'wp_login', 'store_member_last_login', 10, 2 );