[wp-hackers] Updating a User Record via PHP?

[Mike Schinkel]

"Matt Martz" <mdmartz at sivel.net> wrote:
> It shouldn't be adding a new user as long as you 
> pass a proper $userdata array to it.

Aye, there's the rub, eh?  Getting a proper $userdata seems to be the issue.

Did you guys know that core sometimes expects $userdata to be an array and sometimes it expects it to be an object?  Hard to write/debug code that interacts with it given that inconsistency.

-Mike Schinkel
http://mikeschinkel.com/