We do the latter simple trick in our store code so we can show people the member prices. We have a dummy id that is a member so we switch to it, pick up the price and use it so we can show both member and non-member prices on the screen.

On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 9:18 AM, Christian López Espínola <penyaskito@computer.org> wrote:

Haven't tested your code, but maybe you want to take a look at masquerade_switch_user and masquerade_switch_back: http://drupalcode.org/project/masquerade.git/blob/HEAD:/masquerade.module.

And if the impersonation is only for the given request, maybe just

 

 global $user;

 $previous = $user;

 $user = user_load($uid);

// Do your stuff.

 $user = $previous;

would work.

On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 10:37 AM, Lluís Forns <enboig@gmail.com> wrote:

Some of my scheduled task needs to run as the user who triggered them (not anonymous neither admin); so I thought of writing two actions:

- One to impersonate a user, which will receive uid as an argument.

- Another to undo the impersonate.

All the called actions should be between them.

Anybody see any fault in this idea or the actions code?

Thanks.

function wu_action_impersonate($uid) {

  global $user;

  if (!array_key_exists('wu_action_impersonate', $_SESSION)) {

    $_SESSION['wu_action_impersonate'] = array();

  }

  array_push($_SESSION['wu_action_impersonate'], $user);

  session_save_session(FALSE);

  $user = user_load($uid);

  user_load($uid);

}

function wu_action_unimpersonate() {

  global $user;

  if (array_key_exists('wu_action_impersonate', $_SESSION)) {

    if (!empty($_SESSION['wu_action_impersonate'])) {

      $user = array_pop($_SESSION['wu_action_impersonate']);

    }

    if (empty($_SESSION['wu_action_impersonate'])) {

      unset($_SESSION['wu_action_impersonate']);

    }

  }

  session_save_session(TRUE);

}

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