[support] Add some info to $user

[Metzler, David]

Yes that's right.  User_load is not called all the time, but only when a
module decides it needs all the users profile information, etc.

So in the module that needs access to this, it should call
user_load($user->uid) in order to make sure it gets all profile fields,
and your hook_user code is executed.  

If you truly need this data populated every page load, and are coding
for 5.x, you can move your code into hook menu (!$may_cache section) in
a module to modify the global $user object instead. Hook init could be
used but you'll find not all the drupal api functions are available
cause drupal hasn't fully bootsrapped yet (particularly  when caching is
enabled). 

In 6.x hook_init is a more appropriate place to do "every page" loading
of data into the global user object. 

Dave

-----Original Message-----
From: support-bounces at drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces at drupal.org] On
Behalf Of Marc Poris
Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2008 9:48 AM
To: support at drupal.org
Subject: Re: [support] Add some info to $user

You probably need to call user_load() -- please read through this issue 
and the issues that it references:

   http://drupal.org/node/49385

- Marc



Davide Michel 'ZioBudda' Morelli wrote:
> Hi all. I need to add some infos to $user variable. I have thinked
that 
> hook_user() is my "hook" :)
>
> So I have write a function that add the infos to the $account:
>
> function mw_livelloUtenti_user($op, &$edit, &$account, $category =
NULL) {
>     switch ($op) {
>         case "login" :
>         case "load" :
>             if ($account->uid != NULL || $account->uid != 0) {
>                
>                 $tmp = db_query("SELECT mw.* FROM mw_lU AS mw LEFT
JOIN 
> mw_lU_user AS mwu ON mw.luid = mwu.luid WHERE mwu.uid =
%d",$account->uid);
>                 $account->level = db_fetch_array($tmp);
>                 //print_r($account); //Ok, data are inserted (fields: 
> level, data1, data2)
>             }
>             break;
>   }
> }
>
>
> Now, why when one of my other module try to access to $user->account 
> this field is NULL ?
> Plz help me.
>
> M.
>
>   


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