Extension:LastUserLogin

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LastUserLogin Release status: stable
Implementation	Special page, User activity
Description	Displays the last time a user logged in
Author(s)	Justin G. Cramer, Danila Ulyanov, Thomas Klein
Last version	trunk
MediaWiki	1.11 and higher
License	GNU General Public License version 2 or later
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Added rights lastlogin
Check usage (experimental)

Last User Login displays a simple table of users and the last time they logged in. This can be useful, if your wiki is used as a knowledge base for outside personnel. If you have a requirement that they check the wiki prior to placing a call or email LastUserLogin can be used to verify that this policy is being enforced.

Installation

Changing configuration

Add the following line to LocalSettings.php:

require_once("$IP/extensions/LastUserLogin/LastUserLogin.php");

and expand the rights in LocalSettings.php (sample):

$wgGroupPermissions['sysop']['lastlogin'] = true;

Source Code

See download section in info box.

Impact to other functions

Adding a log entry for every user login impacts the script /maintenance/removeUnusedAccounts.php as the script checks for the number of page-edits, image-uploads and log-entries. However you can patch removeUnusedAccounts.php to ignore the first login which is very common for spamming robots:

original

 if( CountEdits( $user, false ) == 0 && CountImages( $user, false ) == 0 && CountLogs( $user, false ) ==0 ) {
                        # User has no edits or images, mark them for deletion
                        $del[] = $user;
                        $count++;
                }

change to that

 if( CountEdits( $user, false ) == 0 && CountImages( $user, false ) == 0 && CountLogs( $user, false ) <= 1 ) {
                        # User has no edits or images, mark them for deletion
                        $del[] = $user;
                        $count++;
                }

Modified Version

This is yet another minor modified version of the SpecialLastUserLogin extension by User:Yazheirx.

The following is new in the version:

• Installation in the path extensions
• Internationalization of the texts (s. MediaWiki:Lastuserlogin and next)
• Internationalization of the format of date
• Internationalization the output of database

Change to Version 1.0.1

• Make a link to the user page

Change to Version 1.0.2

• The code checked the user authorizes

Change to Version 1.0.3

• Fixed problems with varibale $_COOKIE and $PHPSELF
• Translation to german
• Insert sytel cellpadding in table

Change to Version 1.0.4

• Fixed problems with MediaWiki 1.6

Change to Version 1.0.5

• Fixed some formals problems

Change to Version 1.0.6

• Specialpage is only display, when user have right 'lastlogin'
• Change name of COOKIE variable
• Fixed problem with MediaWiki 1.5.x

Change to Version 1.0.7

• Fixed update timestamp query to be database agnostic for MediaWiki Version >=1.6
  (Note: Tested with postgresql and mysql only on versions 1.10.0 and 1.11.0 only)

Change to Version 1.1.0

• Separate file for i18n and a better i18n code
• Added Dutch (nl) translation
• Starting French (fr) and Latin (la) translations
• Better English messages
• New directory 'extensions/SpecialLastUserLogin/' for holding the new i18n file and the normal file together

Changes in version 1.2.0

• MediaWiki versions older than 1.11 are no longer supported
• Better standards compliance (see Manual:Coding conventions)
• Uses class autoloading → less server-intensive than before
• Internationalization messages are only loaded when needed
• Indentation fixes; uses now tab indentation rather than messy space indentation