how to show a triggerd welcome message only on the first login?
vallab444 - September 11, 2009 - 15:09
I show a user welcome message on my site, triggered on user login. However, I want to restrict this only to the first or the initial few logins of a new user. Is there a way to achieve this non-programmatically? How do I check if it is the first or 'N' th login?
thanks!
User Stats
I've never used it myself, but you might want to check out User Stats, which includes a login counter. You'd still need a helper module to produce the count-sensitive messaging though. The idea is something like this VERY crude example:
function hook_user($op, &$edit, &$account, $category = NULL) {// $account assumes you have a fully loaded user object containing user stat properties
if ($op == 'login') {
switch ($account->login_count) {
case 0:
case 1:
drupal_set_message(t("Hey, welcome new user!"));
break;
case 2:
drupal_set_message(t("Hey, you look familiar..."));
break;
default:
drupal_set_message(t("Hey, good to see you again old-timer."));
}
}
}
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