Same name in other branches

1. 8.x-1.x src/Controller/SwitchUserController.php \Drupal\devel\Controller\SwitchUserController::switchUser()
2. 5.x src/Controller/SwitchUserController.php \Drupal\devel\Controller\SwitchUserController::switchUser()

Switches to a different user.

We don't call session_save_session() because we really want to change users. Usually unsafe!

Parameters

string $name: The username to switch to, or NULL to log out.

Return value

\Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\RedirectResponse A redirect response object.

Throws

\Symfony\Component\HttpKernel\Exception\AccessDeniedHttpException

1 string reference to 'SwitchUserController::switchUser'

devel.routing.yml in ./devel.routing.yml

devel.routing.yml

File

src/Controller/SwitchUserController.php, line 96

Class

SwitchUserController

Controller for switch to another user account.

Namespace

Drupal\devel\Controller

Code

public function switchUser($name = NULL) {
    if (empty($name) || !($account = $this->userStorage
        ->loadByProperties([
        'name' => $name,
    ]))) {
        throw new AccessDeniedHttpException();
    }
    $account = reset($account);
    // Call logout hooks when switching from original user.
    $this->moduleHandler
        ->invokeAll('user_logout', [
        $this->account,
    ]);
    // Regenerate the session ID to prevent against session fixation attacks.
    $this->sessionManager
        ->regenerate();
    // Based off masquarade module as:
    // https://www.drupal.org/node/218104 doesn't stick and instead only
    // keeps context until redirect.
    $this->account
        ->setAccount($account);
    $this->session
        ->set('uid', $account->id());
    // Call all login hooks when switching to masquerading user.
    $this->moduleHandler
        ->invokeAll('user_login', [
        $account,
    ]);
    return $this->redirect('<front>');
}