Publish content on user unblock event Drupal 7

Question

I know that this is most probably and easy question but I simply can't get it to work. I have a custom module which generates a form to create a content (unpublished) of a certain type and also register the anonymous user creating that content with a username and password.

I am using the User verification module to send a validation mail, and when the client clicks the link the account is unblocked.

I want a rule (I tried using the Rules module) to publish the content when the account is unblocked or validated (i need it to work on one of these to events) , but I can't find either of these events, nor can I manage to set the data selector to publish that specific content when setting the action to publish content.

If anyone can explain to me what I am missing or doing wrong it would help me a lot.

Answer 1

In your custom module you could use a hook_user_update and if the $account->original->status == 0 & $account->status == 1 (meaning that the user just got active [untested]), publish the content.

something like:

<?php
/**
 * Implementation of hook_user_update()
 */
function MODULE_user_update(&$edit, $account, $category) {
  if($account->status && $account->status != $account->original->status) {
    // with the user id you can find (i suppose) the content this user has just 
    // created and publish it, using something like the link below
  }
}

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