Module Development

Switching a users theme with php in drupal

 The following will switch the users theme to pushbutton. You could use this code to change the users theme based on any logic you like.

<?php 
global $user;
user_save($user, array('theme' => 'pushbutton'));
?> 

Controlling the order of module execution in Drupal

Some modules require others to have executed before they can function correctly. I have come accross an example where this is important. We run drupal ecommerce and have written a streamline payment gateway. Part of this module sends transacation data to Google Analytics. This code is dependant upon the Google Analytics Module.

I found that the Analytics module was executing after my Streamline module. In order to fix this I discovered the ability to assign weights to modules just like menus. This allows control over when they execute, lower numbers get triggered first.

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