Would it not be sufficient to simply block the users instead of deleting them?
Earnie Boyd wrote:
Quoting Davide Michel 'ZioBudda' Morelli michel@ziobudda.net:
Hi all. When a user want to delete from my site , for an italian privacy law (in words more and more simple), I can not delete him/her data from my DB but I can only delete his personal data (rewrite it with REMOVED is enough), but not the email because the police can ask me who write a comment or a node for some month after him/her delete him/her account. (The italian policy law is more and more "articulate").
I know that there is a hook_user() but how can I stop Drupal from deleting my user ? And I don't want the drupal change the uid associated to the nodes that the users has write, too.
Interesting problem. You need a module to trap the Delete of the user and change it to a block_user. I don't know if a module exists already but I might even argue that a user delete should only flag the user record deleted anyway. Perhaps an enhancement for D7 to add a deleted flag in timestamp format to allow for proper administration of the user data.
Earnie -- http://for-my-kids.com/ -- http://give-me-an-offer.com/