hook_menu to run a function

By Amjad_dokhan on 17 Oct 2016 at 06:52 UTC

Dear everyone,

I am building a module in which I added a page to view user profiles, so that user can check their own profile and can change whatever data they need from there. Here are the important parts of the module:

<?php

function user_profiles_block_info() {
  $blocks['myblock'] = array(
   'info' => t('User Profile: Personal Information Block'),
   );
  return $blocks;
}

function user_profiles_block_view($delta = '') {

function update_profile_menu() {
    $items['change_first_name_url'] = array(
      'title' => 'Change users first name',
      'page callback' => 'change_first_name',
      'access callback' => TRUE,
    );
    return $items;
}

// Add js

drupal_add_js('sites/all/modules/user_profile/script.js');
drupal_add_library('system','ui.dialog');

// Add CSS

drupal_add_css('sites/all/modules/user_profile/user_profile.css');

// Retrieve Name from 'field_data_field_name'
$query_name = db_select('field_data_field_name', 'n')           
            ->condition('n.entity_type', 'profile2')
            ->fields('n', array ( 'field_name_value' ))     
            ->execute();

$user_name  = array_keys($query_name ->fetchAllKeyed(0, 0));  

$rows = array();
$header = array(t('Personal Information'));

$rows[] = array('First name: '. "$user_name[0]". ' '. '<button class="special-button" onclick="script_function()">edit</button>'
);

$block['content'] = theme('table', array('header' => $header, 'rows' => $rows));
return $block;
}

function change_first_name() {
$change= db_query("UPDATE field_data_field_name
SET field_name_value = 'new name' WHERE entity_id = '3'");
}

There is a button when pressed a JQuery UI dialog pops up and asks the user to enter the new name. The code for the JQuery script is:


function script_function() {
(

function ($) {
  
$(document).ready(function(){

$('<div>First name:<input type="text" style="user-name" name="user-name"<div>').dialog({

modal: true,
minHeight: 5,
width: 300,                      
  
buttons: {
 'Ok': function() {
       
    $.ajax({
       url:"change_first_name_url",
       data: {},
       type: "GET",
       dataType : "text",
           })
               $(this).dialog('close');
     },
    }
   });
  });
}

)(jQuery);

}

There is a hook_menu function so that when the user presses "Ok" on the dialog box, the hook_menu function "update_profile_menu()" will call the function "change_first_name" and it will update the database entry. I learned this method from Jaypan, and it did work on another module but for some reason when I press "Ok" on the Dialog box the function"change_first_name" never gets called. What could it be that I'm doing wrong? Any help is highly appreciated. Thank you very much in advance.

Comments

I'm wondering if it should be

tce commented 17 October 2016 at 07:32

I'm wondering if it should be:

<?php
function user_profile_menu() {
    $items['change_first_name_url'] = array(
      'title' => 'Change users first name',
      'page callback' => 'change_first_name',
      'access callback' => TRUE,
    );
    return $items;
}
?>

The hook should be the name of your module 'user_profile' and not 'update_profile'.

Tried that

Amjad_dokhan commented 17 October 2016 at 07:37

Hi tce,

I tried that and still nothing ! I checked the URL by typing it in the address bar, and the URL is there but the function still not called !

Have you tried returning

tce commented 17 October 2016 at 07:56

Have you tried returning something in your change_first_name() callback function?

<?php
function change_first_name() {
  return 'test';
}
?>

Also clear the Drupal caches if you haven't done so already.

Tried it

Amjad_dokhan commented 17 October 2016 at 08:05

tce I tried both, still nothing ! I also have in the module "hook_block_info" and "hook_block_view" functions, and I placed my "hook_menu" function inside the "hook_block_view" function {}. I tried placing it at the beginning of the module but that made no difference. Do you have any suggestions on where to best place "hook_menu" function?