[Building Sakai] Sakai session variables/passing parameters to the Web Content tool?

[Matthew Jones]

You were close, the variables are listed here [1]
${SITE_ID},${USER_ID},${USER_EID},${USER_FIRST_NAME},${USER_LAST_NAME},${USER_ROLE},
and ${SESSION_ID}.

By default all of these except ${SESSION_ID} are included in this property.
private static final String MACRO_DEFAULT_ALLOWED =
"${USER_ID},${USER_EID},${USER_FIRST_NAME},${USER_LAST_NAME},${SITE_ID},${USER_ROLE}";

Here's an example calling "test.php" to print out the variables, run on the
nightly server.

<some remote
server>/test.php?siteId=${SITE_ID}&userId=${USER_ID}&userEid=${USER_EID}&userFirst=${USER_FIRST_NAME}&userLast=${USER_LAST_NAME}&userRole=${USER_ROLE}&sessionId=${SESSION_ID}

*(test.php)*
  1 <?
  2 print_r($_GET);
  3 ?>
[image: Screenshot.png]This is all defined in IFrameAction.java [2] in the
web tool

If you want something more advanced you can look at BasicLTI which ensures
identity and passes more information about a user.

[1]
https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/DOC/Sakai+Properties+Reference+-+I
[2]
https://source.sakaiproject.org/svn/web/trunk/web-tool/tool/src/java/org/sakaiproject/web/tool/IFrameAction.java

-Matthew

On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 8:27 AM, Grogan, David <David.Grogan at tufts.edu>wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> As a user of Confluence I'm used to having the convenience of session
> variable such as "$!user.fullName" to be able to dynamically display info
> where needed.
>
> Does Sakai have anything like this?
>
> e.g. a use case I'd love to be able to implement is creating a site
> template with a Web Content tool with the URL:
>
> http://somesite.edu/portal?courseid=$sakai.SiteID
>
> Anything available along those lines?
>
> David
>
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