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Movie Project: Add Form Data to Custom Database Tables for Drupal 7

  
Last updated June 7, 2017
Module Development7.x

Add user data to the database from an existing form.

Objectives and Prerequisites

You will need the following knowledge and skills. If you need a review, check out the Resources section at the bottom of this page.

  1. Understand how to update user information in the database.
  2. Use database queries.
  3. Use default values in forms.

Tasks

Create a function to save the user data which has been submitted in the altered user form.

Create a function to put the data into the new table created earlier.

Create functions to retrieve the data from the form.

Set the default values of the new fields.

Summary

  • hook_user_update can be used to manage additional functionality for a user object.
  • Break down functions to set and retrieve data so they can be re-used.

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