By chaloum on

if you use user_load_by_mail() and the user isn't found does the system still load the entire user object to find the user or is the user object only loaded if (after) the user is found?

thanks

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blacklabel_tom’s picture

blacklabel_tom commented

Hi Chaloum,

On the API page for the function:

http://api.drupal.org/api/drupal/modules%21user%21user.module/function/user_load_by_mail/7

it says:

Return value

A fully-loaded $user object upon successful user load or FALSE if user cannot be loaded.

Cheers

Tom

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jaypan
Location Victoria, BC
commented

There isn't an object to load if the user doesn't exist (aka "isn't found").

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