Question

I’m new to CakePHP and frameworks and I’ve tried to google in search of an answer without any luck.

I’m using the blank login() function and want to be able to change user records on login (like last_login). How can I do that?

Answer 1

If you’re using Cake’s Auth component, first you’ll have to insert the following line into your beforeFilter function:

$this->Auth->autoRedirect = false;

Setting this to false will allow the following code to execute after CakePHP’s login function has done its magic.

In your login function add:

if ($this->Auth->User()) {
$this->User->id = $this->Auth->user('id');
$this->User->saveField('last_login', date('Y-m-d H:i:s'));
}

Note: Make sure you’ve got the last_login field in your users table and its set to datetime.