[development] transferring session info across login event

[mark burdett]

That would be the last resort but I think I can fix it by following
Neil's suggestion: saving the cart/session id in $_SESSION so it's not
lost.

--mark

On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 6:04 PM, Daniel F. Kudwien
<news at unleashedmind.com> wrote:
>> To clarify, the issue I wrote about isn't related to
>> $_SESSION, it's modules that store data in a separate table
>> with session id as the key (as e-commerce does).  It seems
>> this may be a flawed data model unless there is some means
>> for modules to respond to regenerated session ids.
>
> Did you already try:
>
> function mymodule_form_alter($form_id, &$form) {
>  if ($form_id == 'user_login' || $form_id == 'user_login_block') {
>    $form['submit'] = array('mymodule_pre_submit' => array());
>    $form['submit']['mymodule_post_submit'] = array();
>  }
> }
>
> function mymodule_pre_submit($form_id, $form_values, $return) {
>  static $backup = array();
>  if ($return) {
>    return $backup;
>  }
>  // Backup session data here
>  $backup = ...
>  // Invoke user login (hook_user)
>  user_login_submit(...);
> }
>
> function mymodule_post_submit($form_id, $form_values) {
>  // Reset session data
>  $restored = mymodule_pre_submit(NULL, NULL, TRUE);
> }
>
> ? Just an idea.
>
> But yes, dealing with hook_user() forms is quite a mess...
>
>