[support] Using drupal_http_request()

[Saint-Genest Gwenael]

Steve Edwards wrote:
> I've jumped in to finish up a site that someone else started (yee ha!), and I need to do two things with the user registration data:
> 
> 1) Add some custom fields to the user registration form (i.e. address/city/state/zip, job title, occupation, company, etc.)
> 2) Use the data to add the user to an embedded mail list manager program (Oempro by Octeth).
> 
> Oempro can generate a script that adds the data to their database, and I can post to that script.  I modified the user 
> registration form and added fields using hook_form_alter(), and that works fine.  The next step is to use hook_user() when $op == 
> 'insert' to post the user data to the Oempro script using drupal_http_request().  This brings up two issues:
> 
> 1) How can I access the user data in hook_user()?  Is it part of $user at that point, or would it be in $edit?  Or another place?
> 2) How do I use drupal_http_request()?  Unfortunately I'm not very familiar with HTTP headers or with this function, so I'm not 
> sure what to do.  For instance, do I put the form data (assuming I can get to it in hook_user()) to the $data parameter in array 
> form?  And what do I put in the $header variable for a request like this?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Steve


Hi !

1) Yes, you can use $user to access the user data.

When a new registration is made you have :
 - a call to hook_user() with op=register , without $user data
 - a call to hook_user() with op=load     , without $user data
 - a call to hook_user() with op=validate , without $user data
( If this steps ar ok, user will be added to drupal)
 - a call to hook_user() with op=load     and $user contain user data
 - a call to hook_user() with op=insert   and $user contain user data
 - a call to hook_user() with op=load     and $user contain user data

2) How can you send data to you script ? GET ? POST ?

If your script can use GET datas just add them to URL. For example :
  // Create URL with site name
  $url  = "http://www.google.fr";
  // Add some GET arguments
  $url .= "/search?q=drupal&&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t";
  // Make HTTP request
  $result = drupal_http_request($url);

Gwen