10 Dec
2007
10 Dec
'07
5:34 a.m.
On Sunday 09 December 2007, Shai Gluskin wrote:
To me it seems that user/1 doesn't really fit the Drupal data model. You have the instance of an object which is too different from all the other instances of the object. User/1 is one obstacle that slows down Drupal from becoming object-oriented.
I do not comprehend how having a "root" user account has anything to do with object-orientation whatsoever.
The only thing "magic" about uid 1 is that the user_access() function always returns true for uid 1, and the update.php script (normally) only runs for uid 1. There's nothing else special about it, and certainly nothing that involves objects.
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