How to send an Confirmation email when customer has login successfully?

Question

I want to send a confirmation mail to the customer when has customer login. Please let me know how can I achieve it. I am using Magento 1.9.2.

this is my _loginPostRedirect() function code

 protected function _loginPostRedirect()
{
    // send mail after login start here
    $customer = Mage::getSingleton('customer/session')->getCustomer();
    $templateId = 2; // USE YOUR OWN TEMPLATE ID
    $senderName = Mage::getStoreConfig('trans_email/ident_support/name');  
    $senderEmail = Mage::getStoreConfig('trans_email/ident_support/email');  
    $sender = array('name' => $senderName,
        'email' => $senderEmail);
    $recepientEmail = $customer->getEmail();
    $recepientName = $customer->getName();
    $store = Mage::app()->getStore()->getId();
    $vars = array('customerName' => $customer->getName()); 
     Mage::getModel('core/email_template')
->sendTransactional($templateId, $sender, $recepientEmail, $recepientName, $vars, $storeId);
// send mail after login end here 

Answer 1

You have to override Account controller,

First copy AccountController.php

From

/app/code/code/Mage/Customer/controllers/AccountController.php

To

/app/code/local/Mage/Customer/controllers/AccountController.php

Here you will find method: _loginPostRedirect()

Here you can put confirmation mail code.

Answer 2

If you do not want to create a module, you can override Account controller using the following steps:

1) Make a New Email Template from Transactional Emails and note the ID of it.

hello {{var customerName}},
    You are succesfully logged in.
Thank you

2) Copy AccountController.php file From: /app/code/code/Mage/Customer/controllers/AccountController.php

To: /app/code/local/Mage/Customer/controllers/AccountController.php

3) Search for method: _loginPostRedirect() in AccountController.php

and put the below code at the start of this function

$customer = Mage::getSingleton('customer/session')->getCustomer();
$templateId = 8; // USE YOUR OWN TEMPLATE ID
$senderName = Mage::getStoreConfig('trans_email/ident_support/name');  
$senderEmail = Mage::getStoreConfig('trans_email/ident_support/email');  
$sender = array('name' => $senderName,
            'email' => $senderEmail);
$recepientEmail = $customer->getEmail();
$recepientName = $customer->getName();
$store = Mage::app()->getStore()->getId();
$vars = array('customerName' => $customer->getName()); 
Mage::getModel('core/email_template')
    ->sendTransactional($templateId, $sender, $recepientEmail, $recepientName, $vars, $storeId);

Answer 3

Main idea is to create an Observer for the controller_action_postdispatch_customer_account_loginPost event:

     <controller_action_postdispatch_customer_account_loginPost>
        <observers>
            <module_postdispatch_customer_account_loginpost>
                <class>Namespace_Module_Model_Observer</class>
                <method>postLogin</method>
            </module_postdispatch_customer_account_loginpost>
        </observers>
    </controller_action_postdispatch_customer_account_loginPost>

and check in the postLogin function if the customer is logged in:

if (Mage::helper('customer')->isLoggedIn()) {
   // send mail to customer
}

Your final structure sould be:

app/code/local/<namespace>/<module>/etc/config.xml
app/code/local/<namespace>/<module>/Model/Observer.php