Tom's Life Bits

Some hints, tips and code samples for managing and extending Drupal.

• Using Cpanel to setup tasks

• Directory structure of Drupal 7

• Run PHP without a Drupal module
• Programmatically creating Users and giving them Roles
• Programmatically add-update Users with User_Save
• Create a node in code
• Add PHP Code to the body of a block
• External PHP scripts using Drupal APIs
• Create User Account Programmatically
• Assign Roles to Users Programmatically
• Assign Role with PHP (Stack Overflow)
• Read CSV into PHP array (Stack Overflow)
• Howto Extract Data from CSV file
• Where to put custom php functions
• Adding Custom PHP to Drupal chron directory
• Documenting the Global $user object

• Moving Drupal without Going Crazy

I added a custom field to the user object and needed a way to programmatically put data into that field. I found the following code on Drupal:

   $user_fields = user_load($user->uid);    
   $user_fields->field_points['und'][0]['value'] = $points;
   user_save($user_fields);
   

This comes from the following Drupal page:

• Updating User Fields in Drupal 7

The actual code that worked retrieved a user, updated the field and then saved it back follows. The field name is 'field_lname.

   $field_data = 'Glembocki';
   $name = 'tomg';
   $user_fields = user_load_by_name($name);
   $user_fields->field_lname['und'][0]['value'] = $field_data;
   user_save($user_fields);