Come together with the global Drupal community in Rotterdam, 28 Sept – 1 Oct 2026. Sessions, contribution, connection, and Early Bird savings until 8 June.I have a script which creates a few nodes via node_save. The flow is something like this:
- create new user account using user_save()
- node_save($node1) ===> this has the field used by realname
- node_save($node2) ===> this node uses auto node title and the [realname-node-author] token
i get that this token requires $node2->nid which won't exist at this point so i simply do a another
- node_save($node2) - this time $node2->nid does exist
but the token still comes back as false.
but eventually i saw this was not surprising as even when my script is complete.. there is still no entry in the realname table for this new user. why not??
i can see that hitting certain pages cause the realname entry to be created; but i have tried programmatically things like node_load or even node_view on $node2 after it was created and this doesn't help.
I thought perhaps realname_make_name() was the trick but this also doesn't work as $user->homepage doesn't exist after creating $node2
i'm sure this is a trivial cache issue.. but wondering which cache entry to clear??
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Comment #1
liquidcms commentedchanging this a bit from what i originally posted as i now think this is bug in how realnames are created.
on a different project than i reported on above.. but basically the same issue:
- i have a form which when submitted creates users (and their profile nodes from which realname is created)
- after submission i return to the form which uses a view to create a list of checkboxes based on users.. which includes the ones i just created.
issue is that the checkboxes of the new users are there; but without names.
the real issue... realname is doing some weird things here.
i can see that after my user_save i do in fact have an entry in the realname table, although it is not using the profile fields. but; by the time i get back to my form.. the entry has been deleted.
but.. as mentioned above.. hitting certain pages cause the realname to be built correctly.. i see comments in the code that suggest this is correct; that the code deletes the entry but suggests it will be built again next time it is required. well; it is required;but doesn't get built.
even doing a user_load after the user is created doesn't help... but... if i open a devel execute php window and do the same user_load call (the realname gets created) and then refresh my form page.. that user is now listed correctly.
i could likely sift through the code and sort out where realname needs to be re-inserting into the db.. but figured those more familiar would likely know immediately what the issue is.
hope this description helps.
Comment #2
hass commented