Drupal 7 Programmatically Creating a Rule with a Custom Action

Commerce module uses Rules module extensively. Unlike Ubercart where you can just call a hook and receive $account information of the final process once an anonymous user is converted to a Drupal authenticated user, once checkout is complete.  With Commerce we have to use Rules to create a custom rule with an action that ultimately executes a callback....Yes, I know....

Here's the example of what we did. Look at the code comments for a better hint of what is going on.

How to use Drupal 7 Pathauto module to automatically create smarter URLs

Why is this useful?

• Better site navigation for your users

• Better site organization through breadcrumbs that actually work right!

• You can use one content type and organize it into sub-categories

• SEO

Modules needed

• Token

Drupal 7: Need to Create Form Fields Dynamically?

We did, when working on the JI QuickBooks module, see the code below to see how we did it.