Application lifecycle events

There is something beyond onInit(), onLoad(), onPreRender() and onUnLoad().

If you have some component not extended from TWebControl. You maybe have to trigger an event to a certain time. But, there is no onInit(), etc... in i.e. TModule.

But you can add an event-handler to any TComponent at any stage of the Application Lifecycle, by

 
<?php
class MyModule extends TModule{
    /*/
    TModule has only no LifeCycle methods. It has only "init($config)".
    Sometimes you need a lifecycle in a TModule, like in this instance where we want access to the 'User' object. 
    During the natural "init($config)", the 'User' object has not yet been created. 
    So, we need to ''borrow'' a lifecycle event from the TApplication. In this case: OnAuthenticationComplete.
    /*/
 
    public function init($config){
        //var_dump($this->User); //returns NULL :(
        $this->Application->OnAuthenticationComplete[] = array($this, 'OnAuthenticationComplete');
    }
 
    //This method could be named anything, as long as it's the same as the 2nd param in the array above.
    public function OnAuthenticationComplete(){
        var_dump($this->User); //success!
    }
}
?>

credits to FragMaster B

The above code accesses the User object when authentication has been completed. Otherwise, if you would access it earlier, you would get an empty/null value.

The originating thread: http://www.pradosoft.com/forum/index.php/topic,4987.0.html