How to create user's activity log

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Hi guys. How to track users activity log? do you have some tutorials or article readings to recommend. thank you

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Not sure if still relevant for you, but…

I came up with a solution by myself with a very easy logic. I created an ActivityHelper and ActivityComponent with a single function to push new activities to the database.

This is my table

- id (INT AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY)
- user_id (INT)
- activity (TEXT)
- cta (TEXT)
- parameters (TEXT)
- created (DATETIME)

In the activity field i put the action i created (through my helper) and in the cta field I added the link to the processed activity (as serialized array) and in parameters additional parameters (also serialized array).

Example: I created a new user. After the $this->Users->save() function in Users/add I call the ActivityComponent and put in the data. The same thing is possible to create a new Activity in templates with the Helper.

Now I am implementing the activity log into my bake templates, so I don’t have to add them manually.

Maybe I’ll create a new plugin for the new cake version…