1 user.api.php hook_user_presave($account)

Act on a user account being inserted or updated.

This hook is invoked before the user account is saved to the database.

Modules that want to store properties in the serialized {users}.data column, which is automatically loaded whenever a user account object is loaded, may add their properties to $account->data in order to have their data serialized on save.

Parameters

$account: The user account object.

See also

hook_user_insert()

hook_user_update()

Related topics

File

core/modules/user/user.api.php, line 212
Hooks provided by the User module.

Code

function hook_user_presave($account) {
  // Make sure that our form value 'my_module_foo' is stored as
  // 'my_module_bar' in the 'data' (serialized) column.
  if (isset($account->my_module_foo)) {
    $account->data['my_module_bar'] = $account->my_module_foo;
  }
}