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function hook_privatemsg_name_lookup in Privatemsg 7

Same name and namespace in other branches

6.2 privatemsg.api.php \hook_privatemsg_name_lookup()
6 privatemsg.api.php \hook_privatemsg_name_lookup()
7.2 privatemsg.api.php \hook_privatemsg_name_lookup()

Hook which allows to look up a user object.

You can try to look up a user object based on the information passed to the hook. The first hook that successfully looks up a specific string wins.

Therefore, it is important to only return something if you can actually look up the string.

Related topics

Types of recipients: It is possible to define other types of recipients than the usual single user. These types are defined through a hook and a few callbacks and are stored in the {pm_index} table for each recipient entry.

3 functions implement hook_privatemsg_name_lookup()

Note: this list is generated by pattern matching, so it may include some functions that are not actually implementations of this hook.

privatemsg_privatemsg_name_lookup in ./privatemsg.module: Implements hook_privatemsg_name_lookup().
privatemsg_realname_privatemsg_name_lookup in privatemsg_realname/privatemsg_realname.module: Implements hook_privatemsg_name_lookup().
privatemsg_roles_privatemsg_name_lookup in privatemsg_roles/privatemsg_roles.module: Implements hook_privatemsg_name_lookup().

1 invocation of hook_privatemsg_name_lookup()

_privatemsg_parse_userstring in ./privatemsg.module: Extract the valid usernames of a string and loads them.

File

./privatemsg.api.php, line 510: Privatemsg API Documentation

Code

function hook_privatemsg_name_lookup($string) {
  $result = db_query("SELECT *, rid AS recipient FROM {role} WHERE name = '%s'", trim($string));
  if ($role = db_fetch_object($result)) {
    $role->type = 'role';
    return $role;
  }
}