Hi Sheryl, Please show us some code. A great way to do this is with http://pastebin.com/ Just go there, fill in the form, and post the URL here for people to look at. Sheryl (Permutations Software) wrote:
- Which hook functions are called when (and not just from within the Drupal code, but from what user action)? I thought that hook_auth() might be called when the user logged in (that was a wild guess), but I can't get Drupal to call this function no matter what I do.
1) Is the function called hook_auth or yourmodule_auth() ? 2) Is your login attempt failing because Drupal is authenticating the user the normal way? Drupal doesn't call the auth hook if the user gets authenticated successfully by Drupal.
- What values are set in the database to control authentication, and what does each value mean? In particular, what is the meaning of the different values for "status" in the user table?
This is a very good point. We've been slowly weaning ourselves from things like if ($user['status'] > 3) and moving to replacing 3 with a meaningful constant to be human readable. Please open an issue on the user module, mark it as 'task', and describe that this should be done for the user module. Better yet, when you figure out what the various meanings of 1, 2, 3 and whatever are, define the variables, replace the numbers, and roll a patch. It could become your first contribution to Drupal core.
- How can I echo values while the script is executing to I can debug my modules???????????????
The normal way. You have to find a place where the code actually gets called, so if your auth hook isn't getting called, you've got to fix that first. I always do this: print_r($vals); exit(); If you have the devel module installed, you can use dprint_r instead (it formats it nicely). Others have other debugging styles. Don't forget that it is Sunday... very slow time for the devel list. -Robert