Custom alert for custom profile field changes?

Hi Shaneholden,

First off, thanks for showing interest in our plugin.

Just to confirm; you are using the plugin Advanced Custom Fields that creates / modifies custom fields in profiles and you would like to be notified each time such a custom field from a user’s profile is changed, correct?

To be honest we never tested such scenario but the plugin should alert you each time a new custom field is created, modified (both content and custom field name) or deleted.

At this stage does the plugin alert you of such changes?

And if the plugin is alerting you, do you mean that you would like to see an alert that a user’s profile has been modified instead of the custom field alert?

Looking forward to hearing from you.

Thank you so much for your reply!

Currently I’m using ACF to create a few additional fields in the user profiles, which the users update regularly. What I’m doing is using the users/profiles as a way for the user to state if they are available, and if not, there’s a couple of other fields they can use to give information why they are not and when they should be back. Right now, the Audit Log keeps record if the user email changes, so: User Shane – Changed the email address from [email protected] to [email protected]

This is perfect! I would just love to be able to capture in the same way, what the custom field was changed from and to that was created by ACF.

Currently, if I edit one of the custom fields in the profile, no record is recorded in the Audit Log.

Thank you again for your time!

Hi Shaneholden,

Thank you for your feedback.

I see your point now. Hence we should implement the functionality (since at the moment there isn’t any) to monitor custom fields in users’ profile.

We will definitely look into this and should implement it in the near future though at this stage cannot guarantee any specific ETA. I trust you understand this ??

In the meantime should you have any further queries, do not hesitate to get in touch.

hi.
i had created two custom user meta fields in my user profiles manually using functions.php in my theme. (not using ACF)

same as my friend Shaneholden, i wanted to create custom event and logs when those meta fields change for any user.

so i made some modifications in plugin files (which certainly is not a correct solution). but as a temporary solution, i’m going to share it with you and i hope this help.

my custom user meta fields are two selectbox and their meta-keys are:
1. bid_num_permit
2. special_bid_permit

At first i opened up UserProfile.php (pluginroot\classes\Sensors) and added these lines after line 100 (email changed condition) :

// email changed
        if(!empty($_REQUEST['email'])){
...
}
// Line 101 - my code starts here
$oldPermit = get_user_meta( $user_id, 'bid_num_permit', true );
		$newPermit = trim($_REQUEST['bid_num_permit']);
		if($oldPermit != $newPermit){
			$this->plugin->alerts->TriggerIf(4015, array(
				'TargetUserID' => $user_id,
				'TargetUsername' => $user->user_login,
				'OldPermit' => $oldPermit,
				'NewPermit' => $newPermit,
			), array($this, 'MustNotContainUserChanges'));
		}
		$oldSpecial = get_user_meta( $user_id, 'special_bid_permit', true );
		$newSpecial = trim($_REQUEST['special_bid_permit']);
		if($oldSpecial != $newSpecial){
			$this->plugin->alerts->TriggerIf(4016, array(
				'TargetUserID' => $user_id,
				'TargetUsername' => $user->user_login,
				'oldSpecial' => $oldSpecial,
				'newSpecial' => $newSpecial,
			), array($this, 'MustNotContainUserChanges'));
		}

as u can see, i created two new alert code for these events: 4015 & 4016.
now for creating a custom message for these events, i opend up default.php file in plugin root and added these lines after line 123 (array(4007….):

array(4007, E_CRITICAL, __('A user was deleted by another user', 'wp-security-audit-log'), __('Deleted User %TargetUserData->Username% with the role of %TargetUserData->Roles%', 'wp-security-audit-log')),
array(4015, E_NOTICE, __('Special Bid Permission', 'wp-security-audit-log'), __('Number of allowed special bids for user %TargetUsername% changed from %OldPermit% to %NewPermit%.', 'wp-security-audit-log')),
array(4016, E_NOTICE, __('Special Bid Offer Permission', 'wp-security-audit-log'), __('Permission to send offer in special bids for user %TargetUsername%, changed from %oldSpecial% to %newSpecial%.', 'wp-security-audit-log')),
),
__('Plugins & Themes', 'wp-security-audit-log') => array(
.....

after save, it worked as i expect.
& also those events (4015 & 4016) were automatically added in User Profiles Tab in plugin alters.

WPWhiteSecurity, tnx for your great plugin ??

Hi Morteza,

Thank you for your suggestion. We will definitely look into the patch. This is something we are still looking into and will definitely have it implemented at a later stage.

Glad you like the plugin. Would appreciate if you can review it.