user_load_by_mail() performance question

Posted by chaloum on January 20, 2013 at 12:31am

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

Comments

API page

Posted by blacklabel_tom on January 21, 2013 at 2:38pm

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

Bristol based Drupal web design
BlackLabel Web Design

There isn't an object to load

Posted by Jaypan on January 22, 2013 at 1:32am

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

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