[development] Creating a user and assigning a node in the node's submit callback.

[Brian Vuyk]

I thought about doing it that way, and looking back, perhaps I should 
have... but the fields we are using are added to the form via 
hook_form_alter, and aren't actually part of the node.

Brian

On 10-01-12 04:45 PM, Sam Tresler wrote:
> I just did a very similar functionality only used hook_node_api: case 
> 'insert' to create the user and set the author of the node.  Works 
> just fine there and you avoid any edge cases where the form is 
> submited but the node isn't 'save-able'.
>
> -S
>
>
> On Jan 12, 2010, at 4:24 PM, Brian Vuyk wrote:
>
>> Hi all.
>>
>> I've been trying to get a bit of code working, and I would appreciate 
>> a set of eyes.
>>
>> Basically, I have a content type ('profile') which has fields for 
>> user account details. If they are filled out, and a 'Create account' 
>> checkbox is checked, a user account is created with those details, 
>> and the profile node should be assigned to the newly-created user 
>> instead of the user creating the node.
>>
>> The issue is that, while the new user is created properly in the 
>> submit hook, the last line in the submit callback where I override 
>> the 'uid' value from the form values doesn't work - the node just 
>> saves with the user's uid instead of the uid of the new account that 
>> is specified on the last line.
>>
>> Does anyone have any idea how to make this work?
>>
>> Thank you in advance for anyone that can suggest a solution!
>>
>> Brian
>>
>> <?php
>> function mymodule_form_profile_node_form_alter(&$form, &$form_state) {
>>  // Add our submit handler. We use array_unshift to prepend it, as we 
>> want it
>>  // to execute before the regular node form submit handler.
>>  array_unshift($form['buttons']['submit']['#submit'], 
>> 'mymodule_profile_form_submit');
>> }
>>
>> // Submit the user account creation fields in the profile_node_form.
>> function mymodule_profile_form_submit($form, &$form_state) {
>>
>>  // Create the user account.
>>  if ($form_state['values']['create']) {
>>    $account['name'] = $form_state['values']['username'];
>>    $account['mail'] = $form_state['values']['mail'];
>>    $account['pass'] = $form_state['values']['pass'];
>>    $account['status'] = 1;
>>    $account = user_save(array(), $account);
>>
>>    // Now set the uid of the profile node to be owned by this new 
>> account.
>>    $form_state['values']['uid'] = $account->uid;
>>  }
>> }
>> ?>
>