[development] Custom user data tab not displayed with hook_user

Steve Edwards killshot91 at gmail.com
Wed Mar 3 15:40:24 UTC 2010


All I want is it to display as a secondary tab, but I can't even get that to show up.  Is the code below sufficient to make that happen, or am I missing something else?

Thanks.

Steve

On Mar 2, 2010, at 3:39 PM, Jamie Holly wrote:

> Categories display as secondary tasks under the Edit tab. If you want a primary tab on top then yeah - you need to do a new menu hook like /user/%user/demographics with the type set to MENU_LOCAL_TASK
> 
> Jamie Holly
> http://www.intoxination.net
> http://www.hollyit.net
> 
> 
> On 3/2/2010 3:10 PM, Steve Edwards wrote:
>> I took over a site that has custom user data stored in a separate table, and I would like to display those fields in a separate tab in the user profile.  I figured I could just write a page and form function, but I'd like to integrate it with user data.  I have the following hook_user implementation:
>> 
>> function hsi_user($op,&$edit,&$account, $category = NULL) {
>> switch ($op) {
>>  case 'categories':	
>>       $data[] = array(
>>         'name' =>  'hsi_demo',
>>         'title' =>  'Demographics',
>>         'weight' =>  3,
>>         'access callback' =>  TRUE,
>>       );
>>       return $data;
>>     case 'form':
>> 	$data = db_fetch_object(db_query("SELECT bday, gender, nation, religion, heard FROM hsi_demo WHERE uid = %d", $account->uid));
>> 	$countries = _hsi_countries();
>> 	
>>         $fields['hsi_demo']['bday'] = array(
>> 	  '#type' =>  'date',
>>           '#title' =>  'Birth Date',
>>           '#default_value' =>  isset($edit[$field->name]) ? $edit[$field->name] : '',
>>           '#required' =>  TRUE,
>>         );
>> 	$fields['hsi_demo']['gender'] = array(
>> 	  '#type' =>  'select',
>> 	  '#title' =>  'Gender',
>> 	  '#options' =>  array('m' =>  'Male', 'f' =>  'Female'),
>> 	  '#default_value' =>  $data->gender,
>> 	);
>> 	$fields['hsi_demo']['nation'] = array(
>> 	  '#type' =>  'select',
>> 	  '#title' =>  'Country',
>> 	  '#options' =>  $countries,
>> 	  '#default_value' =>  $data->nation,
>> 	);
>> 	$fields['hsi_demo']['denomination'] = array(
>> 	  '#type' =>  'select',
>> 	  '#title' =>  'Denomination',
>> 	  '#options' =>  $countries,
>> 	  '#default_value' =>  $data->denomination,
>>           '#options' =>  $denominations,
>> 	);
>> 	return $fields;
>>     }
>> }
>> 
>> The problem is, I don't get my Demographics tab displayed.  Do I also need a hook_menu entry for this path (i.e. user/%user/edit/hsi_demo)? What else am I missing?
>> 
>> Thanks.
>> 
>> Steve
>>   



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