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

[Nicholas Ciske]

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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> 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.
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>> 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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