How to Save User’s Last Login Time and IP Address

Quick tip of the day. Default Laravel Auth comes with User table and model, but without logging capability, so we need to build it ourselves. Fortunately, it’s very easy, I will show you one method.

Let’s say that we want to save user’s last login time and IP address in the same users table.
So we start with database migration:

php artisan make:migration add_login_fields_to_users_table

Then we fill it with these fields:

class AddLoginFieldsToUsersTable extends Migration
{

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

    // ...

Next, we need to add these fields as fillables in app/User.php model:

class User extends Authenticatable
{
    protected $fillable = [
        'email',
        'password',
        'name',
        'last_login_at',
        'last_login_ip',
    ];

    // ...

Finally, how do we fill them in? You need to know that there is authenticated() method in the AuthenticatesUsers trait. It’s called every time someone logs in. 

/**
 * The user has been authenticated.
 *
 * @param  \Illuminate\Http\Request  $request
 * @param  mixed  $user
 * @return mixed
 */
protected function authenticated(Request $request, $user)
{
    //
}

In trait this method is empty. So we have freedom to override it in LoginController and add whatever code we need.

app/Http/Controllers/Auth/LoginController.php:

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

And, that’s it! Here’s what we have in users table after log in:

laravel last login ip address

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39 COMMENTS

  2. What other things may be interesting to collect that you could collect on Login? I really like this! Thank you!

  3. When a password reset is performed the user is automatically logged in. This method is then not triggered. An event listener is maybe a better solution or what do you think?

    • Hi Leslie, same thing about registering – user is automatically logged in and this event isn’t triggered. Perhaps you’re right, even listener somewhere “deeper” could be better but you need to know what events to listen to.

  5. I hope you guys noticed that the updated_at column gets the same value always as last_login_at column. It shouldn’t be so.

    • updated_at column should be different to last_login_at when you change your password or another personal data under users table.

  8. This was helpful, however as of Laravel 5.8.11 this code throws an error since Request is not an instance of Auth\Request.

    Anyway, if you want just to save the login and not trigger the updated_at filed, just do :

    function authenticated()
    {
    DB::table(‘users’)->where(‘id’, Auth::user()->id)->update([‘last_login_at’=>Carbon::now()->toDateTimeString()]);
    }

      • You can, still for me it does not work proprerly – field does not get updated. First time I’v tried it, since it relies on the User model, it updated also the updated_at field, which is a undesirable side effect. DB interface do it properly. Or I’m missing something

        • Probably you’re missing something, it worked for me and many others. But maybe something changed in Laravel 5.7/5.8. Anyway, if DB interface works for you, great.

        • Kyobul, you should disable the timestamp like this to avoid updating the updated_at field-

          $user->timestamps = false;
          $user->last_login_at = Carbon::now()->toDateTimeString();
          $user->last_login_ip = $request->getClientIp();
          $user->save();

  10. Hello sir, i know question is not related to this topic but I am new and I need help here. I have a column in a database table which I want to sum up the values in laravel. I don’t know what how to do that. Pls, if you can help

  11. A quick tweak for users on Laravel 5.8 +

    function authenticated(\Illuminate\Http\Request $request, $user)
    {
    $user->timestamps = false;
    $user->last_login_at = Carbon::now()->toDateTimeString();
    $user->last_login_ip = $request->ip();
    $user->save();
    }

    This will also prevent the database from updating the ‘updated_at’ column.

    • The now function creates a new Illuminate\Support\Carbon instance for the current time.

      This works for Laravel 7
      function authenticated(\Illuminate\Http\Request $request, $user)
      {
      $user->timestamps = false;
      $user->last_login_at = now();
      $user->last_login_ip = $request->ip();
      $user->save();
      }

  12. Hello, thanks for the tip. I’m wondering if this method is the right approach… Could an update to the framework/auth file break this change?

    I have an quer to insert data when the user login / logout.

    Regards

  13. Hi, thanks for sharing.

    But what if we want to show the last login time somewhere in a view?
    Wouldn’t it always shows the current login session and not the previous login just before the current login?

  14. I take it authenticated() and loggedOut() are a part of the default auth setup for Laravel? I’ve been struggling for days to find the equivalent to these 2 methods in Laravel Passport, but no luck so far.

    • These days people rarely log out of any websites, they just stay in and close the browser. So you can’t catch that browser close event in Laravel.

  17. Hi, Povilas Korop

    It’s working perfect in DB.

    But else I in Index.blade {{$user->last_login_at->format(‘d/m/Y H:i’)}} then a error.
    ErrorException (E_ERROR)
    Call to a member function format() on string but in table is colomn datetime format.

    Do you have a suggestion?

  20. To also insert the last login time and ip on user creation just extend the create function in Auth/RegisterController
    I did it this way

    protected function create(array $data)
    {
    $user = User::create([
    ‘name’ => $data[‘name’],
    ’email’ => $data[’email’],
    ‘password’ => Hash::make($data[‘password’]),
    ‘last_login_at’ => Carbon::now(‘Europe/Copenhagen’),
    ‘last_login_ip’ => \Request::Ip(),
    ]);

    return $user;

    }

  21. I’m missing the ‘down’ function in the migration file. And also an hint to actual run the migration, for the absolute beginners it could be helpful.

  22. Thanks for this helpful article.
    I’m running Laravel 8 and needed to add the following lines in the top of my controller as well:
    use Carbon\Carbon;
    use Illuminate\Http\Request;

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