Working with Users

Summary

After reading this chapter, you should be able to

• Understand how users are represented internally in Drupal.

• Understand how to store information associated with a user in several ways.

• Hook into the user registration process to obtain more information from a registering user.

• Hook into the user login process to run your own code at user login time.

• Understand how external user authentication works.

• Implement your own external authentication module.

For more information on external authentication, see the openid.module (part of the Drupal core) or the contributed pubcookie.module.