[SOLVED] fire_event() what does it do?

[acctman]

does anyone know what "fire_event()" does? $id and $line['m_id'] are the user ID. And, 'on_member_reg' and 'member_login' seem to be short descriptions of the pages. but what exactly is fire_event() doing. Before each function is just queries and user check info and after is just close bracets

 

...
        fire_event('on_member_reg', $id);             
        load_template('modules/members/templates/registration_success.tpl');
...

 

another file

 

...
        fire_event('member_login',$line['m_id']);
        header('Location: '.$redirect);
        exit;
...

[.josh]

That's a user defined function.  There's no way we can know what it does unless you show us the function itself.

[acctman]

That's a user defined function.  There's no way we can know what it does unless you show us the function itself.

 

i did a global search throughout the entire script files and sub-folders nothing came back for fire_event other than those two entries

[.josh]

Well it's got to be somewhere.  If it's nowhere then you'd be getting an undefined function error.

[acctman]

Well it's got to be somewhere.  If it's nowhere then you'd be getting an undefined function error.

 

found it, one of my backup files is out of date. i think i understand whats happening. It calls the _events.php file and from reading through that coding its checked the database to see what payment level the user is.

 

 

//functions to execute on event
function fire_event($event, $param) {
        global $events;
        if (!is_array($events)) return false;
        $path = path;
        if (defined('in_admin')) $path = dirname($path).'/';
        if (is_array($events[$event]))
        foreach ($events[$event] as $key => $value) {
                list($mod, $func) = explode('/',$value);
                require_once($path.'modules/'.$mod.'/_events.php');
                eval($func.'($param);');
                }
        }