Save user last login time and IP address in laravel 5

Laravel has an amazing authentication system. Everything comes out of the box unless you want some changes to the original system. In this article, we are going to twist a little bit of laravel authentication system for adding more fields i.e. user last login time and IP address.

I guess you have already laravel project with laravel default authentication system. If not, you can create an authentication system by running the command below:

php artisan make: auth

Laravel comes with default users table migration and model. So, we will add two fields to this table.

php artisan make:migration add_login_time_fields_to_users_table

After this, we will add two columns in migration.

public function up()
{
    Schema::table('users', function (Blueprint $table) {
        $table->datetime('last_login_at')->nullable();
        $table->string('last_login_ip')->nullable();
    });
}

Let’s migrate our newly created migration file using artisan command:

php artisan migrate

Okay! now we need to add these two columns fillable in User model. Simply, open up the User model and modify fillable as below:

protected $fillable = [
    'name', 'email', 'password', 'last_login_at', 'last_login_ip',
];

Finally, setting up is done. Now, it’s time to fill up those columns. If you have noticed earlier, there is a authenticated() function in lluminate\Foundation\Auth\AuthenticatesUsers trait. This function is called everytime a user is authenticated. The authenticated user and request are already passed. We just need to save the information.

After modifying the function, our code looks like below:

protected function authenticated(Request $request, $user)
{
    $user->update([
        'last_login_at' => Carbon::now()->toDateTimeString(),
        'last_login_ip' => $request->getClientIp()
    ]);
}

Howdy! we are done. Now, we we look our database, we will see the last login time and IP address of users that are once logged in.