Re: LiveUser - meta information for users

Joerg Bruckmann wrote:

Hello, I am using LiveUser with XML_Simple containers like in example 2. I woulde like to display some meta information about the logged in user like the full name or the email-address. My first try to add them to the Auth_XML.xml like <user>

    <userId>c4ca4238a0b923820dcc509a6f75849b</userId>
    <handle>Charlotte</handle>
    <fullname>Charlotte Clip</fullname>
    <email>test@server.com</email>
    <password>098f6bcd4621d373cade4e832627b4f6</password>
    <currentLogin>1047564897</currentLogin>
    <lastLogin>1105695478</lastLogin>
    <isActive>Y</isActive>

</user> and fetch the information with $LU->getProperty('email') obviously was too naive. How would it be possible to handle additional user information with LiveUser and XML_Simple containers?

Not really all that naive. However I think we havent implemented the same level of flexibility into the XML container as we have in the database container. The method in question is LiveUser_Auth_XML::_readUserData(). It should be trivial to extend it for your needs. If want to take things a step further have a look at how things are done in the database container's _readUserData() method and implement an equivalent generic solution for the XML auth container. We would be happy to add such a patch to LiveUser. If you have development questions feel free to join us in our external development list: LiveUser-DevList <liveuser@lists.21st-hq.de> regards, Lukas