[development] Rules action to impersonate a user

[Walt Daniels]

We do the latter simple trick in our store code so we can show people the
member prices. We have a dummy id that is a member so we switch to it, pick
up the price and use it so we can show both member and non-member prices on
the screen.


On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 9:18 AM, Christian López Espínola <
penyaskito at computer.org> wrote:

> Haven't tested your code, but maybe you want to take a look at masquerade_switch_user
> and masquerade_switch_back:
> http://drupalcode.org/project/masquerade.git/blob/HEAD:/masquerade.module.
>
> And if the impersonation is only for the given request, maybe just
>
>  global $user;
>  $previous = $user;
>  $user = user_load($uid);
>  // Do your stuff.
>  $user = $previous;
>
> would work.
>
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 10:37 AM, Lluís Forns <enboig at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Some of my scheduled task needs to run as the user who triggered them
>> (not anonymous neither admin); so I thought of writing two actions:
>> - One to impersonate a user, which will receive uid as an argument.
>> - Another to undo the impersonate.
>> All the called actions should be between them.
>>
>> Anybody see any fault in this idea or the actions code?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> function wu_action_impersonate($uid) {
>>   global $user;
>>   if (!array_key_exists('wu_action_impersonate', $_SESSION)) {
>>     $_SESSION['wu_action_impersonate'] = array();
>>   }
>>   array_push($_SESSION['wu_action_impersonate'], $user);
>>   session_save_session(FALSE);
>>   $user = user_load($uid);
>>   user_load($uid);
>> }
>>
>> function wu_action_unimpersonate() {
>>   global $user;
>>   if (array_key_exists('wu_action_impersonate', $_SESSION)) {
>>     if (!empty($_SESSION['wu_action_impersonate'])) {
>>       $user = array_pop($_SESSION['wu_action_impersonate']);
>>     }
>>     if (empty($_SESSION['wu_action_impersonate'])) {
>>       unset($_SESSION['wu_action_impersonate']);
>>     }
>>   }
>>   session_save_session(TRUE);
>> }
>>
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>>
>
>
>
> --
> Cheers,
>
> Christian López Espínola <penyaskito AT computer DOT org>
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