Get a user created by core_user_create_users using core_user_get_users

Re: Get a user created by core_user_create_users using core_user_get_users

by Lawrence Lagerlof -
Number of replies: 0
Hi Vincent. MoodleRest dev here.

This class is just an easier way to query Moodle webservices. It runs synchronous, so if you call a core_user_create_users using this class you will get the same result of querying the webservice manually.

Well, without your code I can't check the problem, but we can review some important items to make your ultimate goal a reality.

- The core_user_create_users accepts a list of users, but if just one of them generates an error like a duplicated username or missing email, none is inserted and an error is returned by the webservice. If the function added all the users succefully a list of IDs is returned.

- core_user_get_users don't accept a list of usernames or emails, so you must query one by one.

Said that, I wrote an example for your specific scenario:

<?php
// Load the MoodleRest class
require_once('MoodleRest.php');

// Put your webservice url
$webservervice_url = 'http://127.0.0.1/moodle/webservice/rest/server.php';

// Put a token that have permission to execute core_user_get_users and core_user_create_users
$token = '07284be04dc3e8c48c0da131a8f8e40f';

// Instantiate a MoodleRest object
$MoodleRest = new MoodleRest($webservervice_url, $token);

// Query user
$username = 'buddy';
$query_user['criteria'][0] = array('key' => 'username', 'value' => $username);
$result_query = $MoodleRest->request('core_user_get_users', $query_user);

// Test if an exception was returned when querying the user data
if (!empty($result_query['exception'])) {
    print_r(array('Error querying user', $result_query));
    die();
}

// Check if the user was returned. If not, create him
if (empty($result_query['users'][0]['id'])) {
    $people['users'][0] = array(
        'username' => $username,
        'password' => '123456',
        'firstname' => 'Buddy',
        'lastname' => "Revell ($username)",
        'email' => $username . '@email.fake'
    );
    $result_insert = $MoodleRest->request('core_user_create_users', $people, MoodleRest::METHOD_POST);

    // Test if an exception was returned when creating the user
    if (!empty($result_insert['exception'])) {
        print_r(array('Error creating user', $result_insert));
        die();
    }

    print_r(array('Created user', $result_insert));
} else {
    print_r(array('Returned user', $result_query));
}




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