[wp-hackers] store all revisions of user metadata in wordpress - possible?

[Gregory Lancaster]

or- if there is a more effecient method of storing userdata?  An external
database seems like it might be easier to manage than this, but I dont know
if its possible to hook the logged in users username to their information
and have it displayed back for them.

On Friday, August 9, 2013, Jamie Currie wrote:

> I've wondered before why the meta tables don't timestamp -- would make a
> world of things easier if they did and seems like it has a ton of practical
> application.
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> From: "Nicholas Ciske" <nl at thoughtrefinery.com>
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> Subject: Re: [wp-hackers] store all revisions of user metadata in
> wordpress - possible?
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>> Yes, my approach would only really work if you already knew the user id
>> (or were looping through users) and just wanted to display history. Finding
>> a user whose email used to be X would be difficult and hacky.
>>
>> I was going for simple ;-)
>>
>> A separate table would be far more flexible, but a lot more overhead code
>> wise.
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>> On Aug 9, 2013, at 5:00 PM, Jamie Currie wrote:
>>
>>   Interesting approach, wouldn't have thought to do it that way. Wouldn't
>>> it make it challenging to do any kind of searching / filtering on the
>>> metadata though?
>>>
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>>>  ------ Original Message ------
>>>  From: "Nicholas Ciske" <nl at thoughtrefinery.com>
>>>  To: wp-hackers at lists.automattic.com
>>>  Sent: 8/9/2013 2:40:15 PM
>>>  Subject: Re: [wp-hackers] store all revisions of user metadata in
>>> wordpress - possible?
>>>
>>>>  Try storing all meta data for that user in a serialized array -- add
>>>> entries indexed by meta key & timestamp whenever something changes, then
>>>> query the history array to display change history for all or one item.
>>>>
>>>>  Make sure you avoid recursion and don't track the history of the
>>>> history meta data (or store it in an option with the user_id in the key
>>>> name).
>>>>
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