Get current user array with post string

Hey bcworkz,

Thanks for your comments. Hacking this code is the most difficult and time consuming php hack I’ve ever done. My code doesn’t even look like the post currently.

I’ve done several code edits based on suggestions from across the internet, and it still doesn’t work!

Let me show you and everyone what the original file looked like that I’ve tested, which works (every time) and produces a (Status: ok) result.

But keep in mind, the file in this form does nothing that automates any process. You must retype all of the values over and over again to register every new user.

The whole purpose of my edited file is to automate a process for the user, providing a convenience so they don’t have to register twice for two sites. Here is the static array version.

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// Set the Query POST parameters
$query_vals = array(
	'api_username' => 'api-username-here',
	'api_password' => 'password-here',
	'api_key' => 'key-here',
	'firstname' => 'Mary',
	'lastname' => 'Tester',
	'address' => '122 Anywhere Street',
	'city' => 'Little Rock',
	'state' => 'AR',
	'zip' => '72223',
	'country' => 'US',
	'email' => '[email protected]',
	'username' => 'MaryTester',
	'password' => 'password',
	'perkalert' => 0,
	'offer_radius' => 20,
	'send_welcome_email' => 1
);

// Generate the POST string
$postdata = '';
foreach($query_vals as $key => $value) {
	$postdata .= $key.'='.urlencode($value).'&';
}

// Chop of the trailing ampersand
$postdata = rtrim($postdata, '&');

// create a new cURL resource
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'https://secureserver/register_member.xml');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, false);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $postdata);

// Save response to a string
$response = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);

$xml = simplexml_load_string($response);

//var_dump($xml);
echo "Status: ".$xml->status;

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The first three (api fields) will always have the same value, as will the last three fields. So six fields can remain static, but the other 10 fields will always change and must be queried from the WP user DB.

Then the user data is held in an array along with the other static first six fields, then we generate a post string, connect via curl to the other server, save the response to a simplexml load string and get a response from the server of ok or fail and we’re done.

I’ve recoded the WP user array code five times based on suggestions and recoded the post string code maybe seven times and I still get a (fail) server message.

Step 1 is – I first need the correct code syntax to query WP for the user fields shown. BTW, the (mepr-fields) listed in my first post are correct, they are custom usermeta fields in the WP DB.

Should I be using – get_currentuser, or should I use wp_get_current_user? After seeing so many code changes, I don’t know how to code the WP user info needed for the array.

My most recent code that doesn’t produce syntax errors, but also produces a fail response, looks like this:

// Call WordPress function get_currentuserinfo()
// For 4 standard WP fields and wp_get_current_user()
// To call 4 custom WP my-user-fields
    /**
     * @example Safe usage: $current_user = wp_get_current_user();
     * if ( !($current_user instanceof WP_User) )
     *     return;
     */

function get_currentuserinfo() {
global $user_firstname, $user_lastname, $user_login, $user_email;
      get_currentuserinfo();

function wp_get_current_user() {
$current_user = wp_get_current_user ();
$myvar = ($current_user->has_prop('my-field')) . $current_user->get('my-field') . '\n';
$myvar = $WP_vals = array ();

	$WP_vals = array(

	echo    'firstname' . $current_user->user_firstname . "\n";
	echo	'lastname' . $current_user->user_lastname . "\n";
	echo	'username' . $current_user->user_login . "\n";
	echo	'email' . $current_user->user_email . "\n";
	echo	'address' . $current_user->mepr-address-one . '<br />';
	echo	'city' . $current_user->mepr-address-city . '<br />';
    echo    'state' . $current_user->mepr-address-state . '<br />';
    echo    'zip' . $current_user->mepr-address-zip . '<br />';
	);	

//    return $WP_vals;
	}
}

And as I said, this has been so confusing to me because the code I had in place to get user data:

$WP_vals = array(

	'firstname' . $current_user->user_firstname . '\n',
	'lastname' . $current_user->user_lastname . '\n',
	'username' . $current_user->user_login . '\n',
	'email' . $current_user->user_email . '\n',
	'address' . $current_user->mepr-address-one . '\n',
	'city' . $current_user->mepr-address-city . '\n',
    'state' . $current_user->mepr-address-state . '\n',
    'zip' . $current_user->mepr-address-zip . '\n'
	);

came right out of an example in the codex. I’ve been working on this starting on week three and can’t figure out the balancing act here between the right WP code and post string code.

I’ve come to believe the only way this file is going to function correctly, is to have compatible WP code that the post string can process to get a (success) result.

I know my WP code here is not correct, but the functions and variables have to be set in some way first:

error_reporting(E_ALL);
ini_set('display_errors',true);

// Set the Query POST parameters for both
// static and WP user fields
function get_currentuserinfo() {
$current_user = wp_get_current_user();
$user = wp_get_current_user();
if  ( $current_user-> has_prop('my-field')){
get ( $current_user('my-field') '\n');

$id = (isset($_GET['id'])) ? (int) $_GET['id'] : NULL;

if (!$id)
    echo 'oops... invalid id received.';

$query_vals = array(
        'api_username' => 'api username goes here',
        'api_password' => 'password here',
        'api_key' => 'key here',
        'password' => 'user password',
	'country' => 'US',
	'perkalert' => 0,
	'offer_radius' => 20,
	'send_welcome_email' => 1,

//Get WP usermeta and add it to the $query_vals array

	'firstname' . $current_user->user_firstname . '\n',
	'lastname' . $current_user->user_lastname . '\n',
	'username' . $current_user->user_login . '\n',
	'email' . $current_user->user_email . '\n',
	'address' . $current_user->mepr-address-one . '\n',
	'city' . $current_user->mepr-address-city . '\n',
        'state' . $current_user->mepr-address-state . '\n',
        'zip' . $current_user->mepr-address-zip . '\n'
);
}
}
// Generate the POST string

$postdata = '';
foreach($query_vals as $key => $value) {
    $postdata .= $key.'='.urlencode($value).'&';
}

// Chop of the trailing ampersand
$postdata = rtrim($postdata, '&');

I believe once the functions and variables are set and the WP code is in a format the post string will accept (I’m getting syntax errors), that all will work correctly.

The challenge is the WP code. I changed your code format for the values being [0] because the array format for the xml file expects the 0’s to be no and 1’s as yes.

It seems there needs to be a variable set also so php can use => like the static part of the array without throwing parse errors.