function hook_user_cancel

Act on user account cancellations.

This hook is invoked from user_cancel() before a user account is canceled. Depending on the account cancellation method, the module should either do nothing, unpublish content, or anonymize content. See user_cancel_methods() for the list of default account cancellation methods provided by User module. Modules may add further methods via hook_user_cancel_methods_alter().

This hook is NOT invoked for the 'user_cancel_delete' account cancellation method. To react to that method, implement hook_user_predelete() or hook_user_delete() instead.

Expensive operations should be added to the global account cancellation batch by using batch_set().

Parameters

$edit: The array of form values submitted by the user. Assign values to this array to save changes in the database.

$account: The user object on which the operation is performed. Values assigned in this object will not be saved in the database.

$method: The account cancellation method.

See also

user_cancel_methods()

hook_user_cancel_methods_alter()

Related topics

File

core/modules/user/user.api.php, line 101

Hooks provided by the User module.

Code

function hook_user_cancel($edit, $account, $method) {
  switch ($method) {
    case 'user_cancel_block_unpublish':
      // Unpublish nodes (current revisions).
      module_load_include('inc', 'node', 'node.admin');
      $nodes = db_select('node', 'n')
        ->fields('n', array('nid'))
        ->condition('uid', $account->uid)
        ->execute()
        ->fetchCol();
      node_mass_update($nodes, array('status' => 0));
      break;

    case 'user_cancel_reassign':
      // Anonymize nodes (current revisions).
      module_load_include('inc', 'node', 'node.admin');
      $nodes = db_select('node', 'n')
        ->fields('n', array('nid'))
        ->condition('uid', $account->uid)
        ->execute()
        ->fetchCol();
      node_mass_update($nodes, array('uid' => 0));
      // Anonymize old revisions.
      db_update('node_revision')
        ->fields(array('uid' => 0))
        ->condition('uid', $account->uid)
        ->execute();
      // Clean history.
      db_delete('history')
        ->condition('uid', $account->uid)
        ->execute();
      break;
  }
}