.. _BackendUser-updateSettings:

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BackendUser::updateSettings()
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\\nn\\t3::BackendUser()->updateSettings(``$moduleName = 'nnhelpers', $settings = []``);
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Saves user-specific settings for the currently logged in backend user.
These settings are also available again for the user after logout/login.
See ``\nn\t3::BackendUser()->getSettings('myext')`` to read the data.

.. code-block:: php

	\nn\t3::BackendUser()->updateSettings('myext', ['wants'=>['drink'=>'coffee']]);

| ``@return array``

Source Code
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.. code-block:: php

   
   public function updateSettings( $moduleName = 'nnhelpers', $settings = [] )
   {
   	if ($beUser = $this->get()) {
   		if (!isset($beUser->uc[$moduleName])) {
   			$beUser->uc[$moduleName] = [];
   		}
   		foreach ($settings as $k=>$v) {
   			$beUser->uc[$moduleName][$k] = $v;
   		}
   		$beUser->writeUC();
   		return $beUser->uc[$moduleName];
   	}
   	return [];
   }