Update email field in LDAP when saving user profile

[leomelzer]

The appropriate hook is https://api.drupal.org/api/drupal/modules!user!user.api.php/function/hook_user_update/7

So

function sogintegration_user_update(&$edit, $account, $category) {
  // instantiate API
  // call appropriate method to change mail-alternative
}

@sebastian-leidig Right now no values seem to get saved at all when posting the profile form?

[sleidig]

no values are saved when posting the profile form: I stumbled over the reason: The field "Bundesland" is required but often still empty. If you don't fill it, the profile is not saved at all (although there is no error message anywhere ...)

[leomelzer]

Thanks, sounds plausible. Can you look into it or do we solve this some other time?

[sleidig]

Workaround for the time being: "Bundesland" is no longer a required field.

The form still doesn't save if other required fields are left empty or deleted despite showing a message "The changes have been saved." but this should happen less often during normal use.

added an issue, so we won't forget: #3

[sleidig]

@leomelzer Does it make sense to use some ldap library like you do in the dashboard? Or even call a Dashboard Api function to save the mail to ldap? (That would encapsulate the ldap structure in the dashboard only)

[leomelzer]

@sebastian-leidig I'd call the API by adding a function to the sogintegration.module like this (pseudocode...):

function sogintegration_user_update(&$edit, $account, $category) {
  // instantiate API
  include 'config.php';
  $api = new DashboardApi($dashboard_config);
  // call appropriate method to change mail-alternative
  $api->updateAlternativeMail($account['uid'], $edit['mail']);
}

Then we keep the write access to the LDAP tree mostly within the Dashboard component.

[sleidig]

Cool, I'll stick to this API method signature then.

[leomelzer]

API method implemented as of https://github.com/studieren-ohne-grenzen/dashboard/commit/16e9535848c0146f1b59f25006523caee69412c9

[sleidig]

To make this more general and also recognize people editing their details through the CiviCRM UI itself, I'll use hook_civicrm_post instead:

hook_civicrm_post( $op, $objectName, $objectId, &$objectRef )

http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC40/CiviCRM+hook+specification#CiviCRMhookspecification-hook_civicrm_post