Change owner on publish node in Drupal

Question

Users on my site can add nodes of a custom type (let's call it "Player") but cannot publish them. Effectively they need moderating before posting. Once an admin / moderator has published them, I want the owner / publisher to be changed to an the relevant admin / moderator. This is so that the user is be unable to edit them and also so it is possible to track who approved them etc.

How do I go about this? I thought it might involve Actions / Rules / Workflow / Workflow-ng etc, but I've looked at each and can't seem to figure out how to make it work!

Answer 1

You can do it manually when you're editing the Player nodes. There's a group of two settings towards the end where you can change the node creator and creation time.

Alternatively, can you give the non-admin users permission to create nodes, but remove their permission to edit these nodes. Might work, but could be painful for these users.

Answer 2

Another alternative is to write a short module that includes an 'approve' link using hook_link(). Point that link to a menu callback that changes the node's ownership from the current user to the user that clicked the 'Approve' link.

It could be nice, clean way of solving this, but requires a bit of Drupal knowhow. However, if you ask someone in the #drupal IRC channel on irc.freenode.net, they could show you how to get started, or even code it as a contributed module for you.

Answer 3

Just to add some more info - BrainV helped me develop the following code for a custom module - called publishtrigger here. I wanted the approve button to publish the Player node and then assign it to the "contentadmin" user, which has ID 6 in my case...

<?php
/**
 * Implementation of hook_perm().
 */
function publishtrigger_perm() {
  return array('approve nodes');
}

    /**
 * Implementation of hook_menu().
 */
function publishtrigger_menu() {
  $items['approve/%'] = array(
    'title' => 'Approve',
    'page callback' => 'publishtrigger_approve_node',
    'page arguments' => array(1),
    'access arguments' => array('approve nodes'),
    'type' => MENU_CALLBACK,
  );
  return $items;
}

/**
 * Implementation of hook_link().
 */
function publishtrigger_link($type, $object, $teaser = FALSE) {

  // Show this link at the bottom of nodes of the Player type which are not yet
  // owned by contentadmin (UID 6).
  if ($type == 'node' && $object->type == 'player') {

    // Make sure user has permission to approve nodes.
    if (user_access('approve nodes')) {
      $links = array();
      if ($object->uid != 6 || $object->status == 0) {
        // Node is not owned by contentadmin (UID 6), and therefore not approved.
        $links['approve_link'] = array(
          'title' => 'Approve',
          'href' => 'approve/' . $object->nid,
        );
      }
      else {
        // Node is already approved
        $links['approve_link'] = array('title' => 'Already approved');
      }
      return $links;
    }
  }
}

/**
 * When this code is run, adjust the owner of the indicated node to 'contentadmin',
 * UID 6.
 *
 * @param $nid
 *  The node id of the node we want to change the owner of.
 */
function publishtrigger_approve_node($nid) {
  // Load the node.
  $node = node_load($nid);

  // Set the UID to 6 (for contentadmin).
  $node->uid = 6;

  // Publish the node
  $node->status = 1;

  // Save the node again.
  node_save($node);

  // Go back to the node page
  drupal_goto($node->path);
}