Drupal - List User's Author

Drupal by default donot provide user's author detail in views or any where in data base. Once I went through this kind of requirnment to list users with detail, who created those users.

A simple way in D7 is to add text field in "user_register_form". That field will be hidden and will get current user's detail in it. We will do this using a module with hook_form_alter.

Say you added a text field in user registration form with name "field_authortxt"
Add the following code in .module file

function custom_user_author_form_alter(&$form, &$form_state, $form_id) {
if(( $form_id == "user_register_form") || ( $form_id == "user_profile_form")){
    $lang = $form['field_authortxt']['#language'];
    global $user;
    $form['field_authortxt'][$lang][0]['value']['#default_value'] = $user->name;
    $form['#after_build'][] = '_tansnippet_after_build';
  }
}

Now we need to hide the field... we will be using after build handler for this..

function _dothis_after_build($form, &$form_state) {
  // Use this one if the field is placed on top of the form.
  if(!empty($form['field_authortxt'])){
    _dothis_fix_disabled($form['field_authortxt']);
  }
  return $form;
}

This will be calling "_dothis_fix_disabled"

function _dothis_fix_disabled(&$elements) { foreach (element_children($elements) as $key) { if (isset($elements[$key]) && $elements[$key]) { // Recurse through all children elements. _dothis_fix_disabled($elements[$key]); } } //Adding readonly attributes to $elements if (!isset($elements['#attributes'])) { $elements['#attributes'] = array(); } $elements['#attributes']['Hidden'] = 'Hidden'; }

Then in the views, you can list the users with "field_authortxt" as users author.