function simplenews_impersonate_user in Simplenews 7.2

Same name and namespace in other branches

1. 7 simplenews.module \simplenews_impersonate_user()

Impersonates another user.

Each time this function is called, the active user is saved and $new_user becomes the active user. Multiple calls to this function can be nested, and session saving will be disabled until all impersonation attempts have been reverted using user_revert_user().

@todo: This function is a backport of http://drupal.org/node/287292. Switch to that once available.

Parameters

$new_user: User to impersonate, either a UID or a user object.

Return value

Current user object.

See also

simplenews_revert_user()

3 calls to simplenews_impersonate_user()

SimplenewsSourceEntity::setContext in includes/simplenews.source.inc

Set up the necessary language and user context.

simplenews_mail_spool in includes/simplenews.mail.inc

Send simplenews newsletters from the spool.

simplenews_revert_user in ./simplenews.module

Reverts to the previous user after impersonating.

File

./simplenews.module, line 2922

Simplenews node handling, sent email, newsletter block and general hooks

Code

function simplenews_impersonate_user($new_user = NULL) {
  global $user;
  $user_original =& drupal_static(__FUNCTION__);
  if (!isset($new_user)) {
    if (isset($user_original) && !empty($user_original)) {

      // Restore the previous user from the stack.
      $user = array_pop($user_original);

      // Re-enable session saving if we are no longer impersonating a user.
      if (empty($user_original)) {
        drupal_save_session(TRUE);
      }
    }
  }
  else {

    // Push the original user onto the stack and prevent session saving.
    $user_original[] = $user;
    drupal_save_session(FALSE);
    if (is_numeric($new_user)) {
      $user = user_load($new_user);
    }
    else {
      $user = is_object($new_user) ? $new_user : (object) $new_user;
    }
  }
  return $user;
}