SimpleLogger() – _initiator – Not Working

Resolved aaron13223
(@aaron13223)

11 months ago
Hi There,

I hope you are doing well! I was trying to log some custom events using SimpleLogger() and had some issues with the _initiator, could you help with that?

I want to log events from specific users after receiving a webhook. If I log it directly, the initiator is empty/”other” or my admin user.
```
SimpleLogger()->info(
    'User ' . $user->user_email . ' purchased ' . $product . ' successfully for $' . $amount_total,
    [
        'username' => $user->user_login,
        'category' => 'payments',
    ]
);
```
I checked the documentation here which pointed me to “_initiator”. I saw that a class is called for this, particular of notice to us: “Simple_History\Log_Initiators::::WP_USER”

This seems to return the following string:
```
$user->user_login ($user->user_email)
```
But if add the same to the logger, it silently fails without anything in the debug log either. I also tried adding “_user_id”, “_user_login”, “_user_email” which exhibit the same behaviour.
```
SimpleLogger()->info(
    'User ' . $user->user_email . ' purchased ' . $product . ' successfully for $' . $amount_total,
    [
        'username' => $user->user_login,
        'category' => 'payments',
        '_initiator' => $user->user_login . ' (' . $user->user_email . ')'
    ]
);
```
I suppose we can include the plugin file directly and then call the method but I don’t think it should matter much at least for testing.

I would really appreciate if you could help out with this. Thanks a lot!
- This topic was modified 11 months ago by aaron13223. Reason: Better title for people searching

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Plugin Author

Pär Thernström

(@eskapism)

10 months, 4 weeks ago

Hi!

You’re close, but you’re using the initator wrong.

Here is an example that would work. Now I manually add the user id, login, and email, but if you have their wp_user object you should be able to use $user->id, $user->login, $user->email just like you did in your example. This assumes that it is always logged in users that are performing the actions.

SimpleLogger()->info(
    'Purchased product "{product_name}" successfully for {amount}', 
    [
        'product_name' => 'My test product',
        'amount' => "100 dollars",
        '_initiator' => Simple_History\Log_Initiators::WP_USER,
        '_user_id' => 5,
        '_user_login' => 'par',
        '_user_email' => '[email protected]',
    ]
);

This would result in something like this being shown in the log:

Simple History custom entry result

Thread Starter

aaron13223

(@aaron13223)

10 months, 4 weeks ago

Worked like a charm. Thanks so much!

if( function_exists( 'SimpleLogger' ) ){
    $user = get_user_by( 'id', $user_id );
    $log = SimpleLogger()->info(
        'User purchased {product} successfully for ${amount}.',
        [
            'product' => get_the_title( $data['metadata']['product_id'] ),
            'amount' => $amount_total,
            'category' => 'payments',
            '_initiator' => Simple_History\Log_Initiators::WP_USER,
            '_user_id' => $user_id,
            '_user_login' => $user->user_login,
            '_user_email' => $user->user_email,
        ]
    );
}

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