[Using Sakai] Reg : Adding users in Sakai using External web-form

[Alaa NIZAR]

Hi,

Here's how I see it:

You provide two login and registration scripts or pages.

On the login page, you set the username and password fields to eid and password, and set  the acion of the form to http://yourip/portal/login.

On the registration page, you write your script to check, first, the availability of the account against the SAKAI_USER table, using for example php/mysql.
If the entered info in the registration form is clean, then you forward your php parameters to the sakai php webservice for addNewUser or so.

This way ypu'll not touch the  mysql directly.

However, you have to put your sakai admin login account outside of your web server root.

Good luck.

Yours, 
Alaa Nizar


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-------- Original message --------
From: Prabhu Janakaraj <prabhu142003 at gmail.com> 
Date:28/06/2014  08:42  (GMT+00:00) 
To: sakai-user at collab.sakaiproject.org 
Cc: Naim Syed <naimsyed at hotmail.com> 
Subject: [Using Sakai] Reg : Adding users in Sakai using External web-form 

Hello All,
                I have been working on Self-user registration page for sakai using external HTML form. Here is the scenario, a seperate HTML page will appear to the user. The user will enter the values for the fields, you can think of a form for creating a user account on any webpage. I mapped the username field and password field to the SAKAI_USER table. But then the user is not able to login. 

As a trial I manually added users directly into the database on the tables SAKAI_USER and SAKAI_USER_ID_MAP. I see the user details I added when I login as admin on the Administration Workspace page, but the username is displayed as blank for the newly added user. 

Then, I ran this script

 "SELECT * 
FROM `SAKAI_USER_PROPERTY` 
LIMIT 0 , 30"

Once I run this script I could see the username for the newly created user from the Administration Workspace page, but still the user is not able to login. 

Again, from the Administration workspace page I resetted the password for the same user. Now the user is able to login. 

I don't understand why this issue is arising. If someone could help me in understanding the underlying process, that will be greatly helpful.



Thanks,
Prabhu






 	
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