Contus HD Video Share - User onCreate Hook?

Question

I'm using the Contus HD Video Share component on my site. The component adds a table that tracks whether or not a user can upload videos. Unfortunately this table is not kept in sync with the users tables, so every time a new user registers I have to manually go in and activate their upload capabilities, which is what creates an entry in the component table with their ID.

I say all that to ask: is there a hook/trigger for when a user is created that I can extend to programmatically activate this capability?

Answer 1

I think you could try to use onAfterSave (http://docs.joomla.org/Plugin/Events) to populate the proper database table and the upload state.

Take a look at an existing user plugin:

https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms/blob/staging/plugins/user/profile/profile.php#L331

You can ignore most of the contents there except the constructor. The other events or methods don't matter really. But you should be able to pull the userid this way and then inject it into the table for the component.

Also - if you need to check and see if the account is new or not you can probably start with a query which checks to see if the record is in the video component table already. If so, then skip the insert. If not then go ahead and do the insert.