One of the most frustrating things to deal with as a Drupal programmer can be Ubercart. Often, you need to complete a simple task such as sending an additional email, or giving a user a new role, and your options are to use Rules, Conditional Actions or just program it yourself.

Rules or Conditional Actions allow you to execute PHP, but sometimes you don't want to store your php code in an unformatted text field in the database. Enter hook_order(). One of Ubercart's primary hooks for getting stuff done.

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