Question

I’m building a login application, and I want to store the date the user registered and the last login date as well as the last login ip.

When creating the table what type should I give each of these three columns?

How would I proceed when I insert a new username and other data?

Should I use PHP to get the register date or should I use mysql’s current date?

For the last login date and ip, what way do I do it?

Answer 1

When creating the table what type should I give each of these three
columns?

make create_date and last_login_date both DATETIME‘s and last_login_ip a VARCHAR

Should I use PHP to get the register date or should I use mysql’s
current date?

This doesn’t matter unless you are required to not use MySQL specific functions.

For the last login date and ip, what way do I do it?

When a user logs in, run an update statement that fills last_login_date with the current timestamp and last_login_ip with the contents of $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'].