$user object (continute)

clipped from mameou.wordpress.com Drupal: Working With Users Storing Data in the $user Object The data field in the users table is for holding extra information in a serialized array. To store data, call user_save(): global $user; $extra_data = array(’disposition’ => t(’Grumpy’)); user_save($user, $extra_data); To retrieve data, do: global $user; print $user->disposition; //Prints ‘Grumpy’ This method creates additional overhead, because the data needs to be unserialized. An alternative method is to implement hook_user('load'), see below. Adding Data to the $user Object This can be done with hook_user('load').