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[done] User alias and user ID for using in user_id

posted by Dirk

Posted on Tuesday October 14, 2008 at 18:24. 383 visits. ( permalink )

If i do a doc.search call with user_id='dirk', i’ll get an error message “User not found”. But if i call with user_id=19181 it all works fine.

Would be great, if i could pass the user alias directly as user_id, because i can’t find my user ID here at ipernity, i only find my user alias (well, i found my user ID in the help system here at ipernity), and i don’t want to compel my users to do some research and use some bugs (i don’t know, if the using of the user ID instead of the user alias in the help system is a bug *g*) just for using my stuff :)

Conclusion: user_id should work with the user ID and the user alias in the same way.

Alternative: Make it easy to get the own user ID via ipernity web site.
Alternative 2: Create a getUserID-function to resolve the user alias to the user ID.

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Doomshammer says:

The UserID is provided through the "auth.getToken" and "auth.checkToken" function

Here is what I do... after fetching the auth token, I store the authtoken and the user inforamtion in the module reference. Looks like this:

'auth' => {
'realname' => 'Winfried Neessen',
'userid' => '12345',
'authtoken' => '12345-54321-a123ca098ca12345',
'username' => 'Doomshammer'
},

Posted 13 months ago. ( permalink )
Doomshammer edited this reply 13 months ago.

Dirk ^pro replies:

The problem is: This will be a Wordpress plugin, so it will be distributed in plain PHP.

No API secret in my PHP code! :)

I don’t want to do the whole auth process just for displaying content. I don’t want to match user names to user ids. I just want to provide the user name or the user id to user_id. Manually, for searching documents of a specified user (namely the user, who will use my Wordpress plugin will provide the username by himself).

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