By macco on

Hello,

I created user a user profile for my site with the Node Profile module. This profile has
one field for the first name and one for the last name of the user.
I would like to add this piece of information to the $user-object.
My approach was to do this in a module via the "user_save()" function:


function uprofile_nodeapi(&$node, $op, $a3 = NULL, $a4 = NULL) {
    .
    .
    .
case 'update': 
      if ($node->moderate && user_access('access submission queue')) { 
        drupal_set_message(t('The post is queued for approval')); 
      } 
      elseif ($node->moderate) { 
        drupal_set_message(t('The post is queued for approval. The editors will decide whether it should be published.')); 
      } 


     // I added this piece of code
     global $user;       
     if ($user->uid == $node->uid) {        // Only change something in $user-object of the profile's owner
       $firstname = array ('firstname' => $node->field_firstname[0]['value']);
       $lastname = array ('lastname' => $node->field_lastname[0]['value']);
       $fullname = array ('fullname' => ($node->field_firstname[0]['value'] . " " . $node->field_lastname[0]['value']));    
       user_save($user,$firstname);
       user_save($user,$lastname);
       user_save($user,$fullname);
      }


      break; 
    .
    .
    .

Unfortunately my module doesn't add anything to the $user-object.
Can anybody tell me if I should use another hook or if my total approach is wrong.

Regards,
Marco