- Patch 4859: new drupal_unpack() consolidates duplicate code and makes it
  easy to show avatars next to nodes and comments.  Patch by Moshe.  As a
  showcase, maybe Xtemplate should have an option to enable/disable avatars?

includes/bootstrap.inc

@@ -161,6 +161,22 @@ function bootstrap_hooks() {
   return array('init', 'exit');
 }
 
+/*
+** Unserializes and appends elements from a serialized string
+** $obj is the object to which we shall append
+** $field is the element whose value is a serialized string
+*/
+function drupal_unpack($obj, $field = 'data') {
+  if ($obj->$field && $data = unserialize($obj->$field)) {
+    foreach ($data as $key => $value) {
+      if (!isset($obj->$key)) {
+        $obj->$key = $value;
+      }
+    }
+  }
+  return $obj;
+}
+
 function referer_uri() {
   if (isset($_SERVER["HTTP_REFERER"])) {
     return check_url($_SERVER["HTTP_REFERER"]);

includes/session.inc

@@ -25,13 +25,7 @@ function sess_read($key) {
   }
 
   $user = db_fetch_object($result);
-  if ($user->data && $data = unserialize($user->data)) {
-    foreach ($data as $key => $value) {
-      if (!isset($user->$key)) {
-        $user->$key = $value;
-      }
-    }
-  }
+  $user = drupal_unpack($user);
 
   return !empty($user->session) ? $user->session : '';
 }

modules/comment.module

@@ -187,7 +187,7 @@ function comment_edit($cid) {
   global $user;
 
   $comment = db_fetch_object(db_query("SELECT c.*, u.uid, u.name, u.data FROM {comments} c INNER JOIN {users} u ON c.uid = u.uid WHERE c.cid = %d AND c.status != 2", $cid));
-
+  $comment = drupal_unpack($comment);
   if (comment_access("edit", $comment)) {
     return comment_preview(object2array($comment));
   }
@@ -205,6 +205,7 @@ function comment_reply($pid, $nid) {
 
     if ($pid) {
       $comment = db_fetch_object(db_query("SELECT c.*, u.uid, u.name, u.data FROM {comments} c INNER JOIN {users} u ON c.uid = u.uid WHERE c.cid = %d AND c.status = 0", $pid));
+      $comment = drupal_unpack($comment);
       $output .= theme("comment_view", $comment);
     }
     else if (user_access("access content")) {
@@ -259,6 +260,7 @@ function comment_preview($edit) {
 
   if ($edit["pid"]) {
     $comment = db_fetch_object(db_query("SELECT c.*, u.uid, u.name, u.data FROM {comments} c INNER JOIN {users} u ON c.uid = u.uid WHERE c.cid = %d AND c.status = 0", $edit["pid"]));
+    $comment = drupal_unpack($comment);
     $output .= theme("comment_view", $comment);
   }
   else {
@@ -678,7 +680,6 @@ function comment_render($node, $cid = 0) {
       */
 
       $result = pager_query($query, $comments_per_page, 0, "SELECT COUNT(*) FROM {comments} WHERE nid = '". check_query($nid) ."'");
-
       if (db_num_rows($result) && (variable_get("comment_controls", 0) == 0 || variable_get("comment_controls", 0) == 2)) {
         $output .= "<form method=\"post\" action=\"". url("comment") ."\"><div>\n";
         $output .= theme("comment_controls", $threshold, $mode, $order, $comments_per_page);
@@ -690,6 +691,7 @@ function comment_render($node, $cid = 0) {
       $output .= form_hidden("nid", $nid);
 
       while ($comment = db_fetch_object($result)) {
+        $comment = drupal_unpack($comment);
         $comment->depth = count(explode(".", $comment->thread)) - 1;
 
         if ($mode == 1) {
@@ -899,6 +901,7 @@ function comment_admin_edit($id) {
 
   $result = db_query("SELECT c.*, u.name, u.uid FROM {comments} c INNER JOIN {users} u ON c.uid = u.uid WHERE c.cid = %d AND c.status != 2", $id);
   $comment = db_fetch_object($result);
+  $comment = drupal_unpack($comment);
 
   if ($comment) {
     $form .= form_item(t("Author"), format_name($comment));

modules/comment/comment.module

@@ -187,7 +187,7 @@ function comment_edit($cid) {
   global $user;
 
   $comment = db_fetch_object(db_query("SELECT c.*, u.uid, u.name, u.data FROM {comments} c INNER JOIN {users} u ON c.uid = u.uid WHERE c.cid = %d AND c.status != 2", $cid));
-
+  $comment = drupal_unpack($comment);
   if (comment_access("edit", $comment)) {
     return comment_preview(object2array($comment));
   }
@@ -205,6 +205,7 @@ function comment_reply($pid, $nid) {
 
     if ($pid) {
       $comment = db_fetch_object(db_query("SELECT c.*, u.uid, u.name, u.data FROM {comments} c INNER JOIN {users} u ON c.uid = u.uid WHERE c.cid = %d AND c.status = 0", $pid));
+      $comment = drupal_unpack($comment);
       $output .= theme("comment_view", $comment);
     }
     else if (user_access("access content")) {
@@ -259,6 +260,7 @@ function comment_preview($edit) {
 
   if ($edit["pid"]) {
     $comment = db_fetch_object(db_query("SELECT c.*, u.uid, u.name, u.data FROM {comments} c INNER JOIN {users} u ON c.uid = u.uid WHERE c.cid = %d AND c.status = 0", $edit["pid"]));
+    $comment = drupal_unpack($comment);
     $output .= theme("comment_view", $comment);
   }
   else {
@@ -678,7 +680,6 @@ function comment_render($node, $cid = 0) {
       */
 
       $result = pager_query($query, $comments_per_page, 0, "SELECT COUNT(*) FROM {comments} WHERE nid = '". check_query($nid) ."'");
-
       if (db_num_rows($result) && (variable_get("comment_controls", 0) == 0 || variable_get("comment_controls", 0) == 2)) {
         $output .= "<form method=\"post\" action=\"". url("comment") ."\"><div>\n";
         $output .= theme("comment_controls", $threshold, $mode, $order, $comments_per_page);
@@ -690,6 +691,7 @@ function comment_render($node, $cid = 0) {
       $output .= form_hidden("nid", $nid);
 
       while ($comment = db_fetch_object($result)) {
+        $comment = drupal_unpack($comment);
         $comment->depth = count(explode(".", $comment->thread)) - 1;
 
         if ($mode == 1) {
@@ -899,6 +901,7 @@ function comment_admin_edit($id) {
 
   $result = db_query("SELECT c.*, u.name, u.uid FROM {comments} c INNER JOIN {users} u ON c.uid = u.uid WHERE c.cid = %d AND c.status != 2", $id);
   $comment = db_fetch_object($result);
+  $comment = drupal_unpack($comment);
 
   if ($comment) {
     $form .= form_item(t("Author"), format_name($comment));

modules/node.module

@@ -263,10 +263,11 @@ function node_load($conditions, $revision = -1) {
   ** Retrieve the node:
   */
 
-  $node = db_fetch_object(db_query("SELECT n.*, u.uid, u.name FROM {node} n INNER JOIN {users} u ON u.uid = n.uid WHERE ". implode(" AND ", $cond)));
+  $node = db_fetch_object(db_query("SELECT n.*, u.uid, u.name, u.data FROM {node} n INNER JOIN {users} u ON u.uid = n.uid WHERE ". implode(" AND ", $cond)));
+  $node = drupal_unpack($node);
 
   /*
-  ** Unserialize the revisions field:
+  ** Unserialize the revisions and user data fields:
   */
 
   if ($node->revisions) {

modules/node/node.module

@@ -263,10 +263,11 @@ function node_load($conditions, $revision = -1) {
   ** Retrieve the node:
   */
 
-  $node = db_fetch_object(db_query("SELECT n.*, u.uid, u.name FROM {node} n INNER JOIN {users} u ON u.uid = n.uid WHERE ". implode(" AND ", $cond)));
+  $node = db_fetch_object(db_query("SELECT n.*, u.uid, u.name, u.data FROM {node} n INNER JOIN {users} u ON u.uid = n.uid WHERE ". implode(" AND ", $cond)));
+  $node = drupal_unpack($node);
 
   /*
-  ** Unserialize the revisions field:
+  ** Unserialize the revisions and user data fields:
   */
 
   if ($node->revisions) {

modules/user.module

@@ -40,13 +40,8 @@ function user_load($array = array()) {
   $result = db_query_range("SELECT u.*, r.name AS role FROM {role} r INNER JOIN {users} u ON r.rid = u.rid WHERE $query u.status < 3", 0, 1);
 
   $user = db_fetch_object($result);
-  if ($user->data && $data = unserialize($user->data)) {
-    foreach ($data as $key => $value) {
-      if (!isset($user->$key)) {
-        $user->$key = $value;
-      }
-    }
-  }
+  $user = drupal_unpack($user);
+
 
   user_module_invoke("load", $array, $user);
 

modules/user/user.module

@@ -40,13 +40,8 @@ function user_load($array = array()) {
   $result = db_query_range("SELECT u.*, r.name AS role FROM {role} r INNER JOIN {users} u ON r.rid = u.rid WHERE $query u.status < 3", 0, 1);
 
   $user = db_fetch_object($result);
-  if ($user->data && $data = unserialize($user->data)) {
-    foreach ($data as $key => $value) {
-      if (!isset($user->$key)) {
-        $user->$key = $value;
-      }
-    }
-  }
+  $user = drupal_unpack($user);
+
 
   user_module_invoke("load", $array, $user);