API Reference

Users.registerOrUpdate

This method registers a new user or updates an existing user if it already exists and returns the user's ID.

The userData is optional, and can be used to update user information if needed. The "userName" parameter will be used as the primary key here. The username may not be updated through this service call; it will only be used if a new user is being registered.

The "userName" parameter must only contain letters (a-z), digits (0-9), underscore (_), hyphen (-), period (.), and the "at" sign (@).

This method returns the user id of the existing user, or the newly created one.

Optional fields for userData are provided below.

Syntax

int users.registerOrUpdate ( int vhost, string userName, array userData = array(), mixed returnUserInfo = false )

Arguments

Name	Type	Required	Default value	Description
vhost	int	Required	none	The id of the vhost.
userName	string	Required	none	The username for the user. This is used to determine if a user already exists.
userData	array	Optional	array()	An array with user information. Only user and email are required, other possible key / value pairs are listed below.
returnUserInfo	mixed	Optional	false

userData Array

The different fields available to you within the array. Please note not all of them need to be defined.

Name	Type	Required	Default Value	Description
user	STRING	Required	none	Username for the account. The user parameter must only contain letters (a-z or A-Z), digits (0-9), underscore (_), hyphen (-), period (.), and the "at" sign (@).
email	STRING	Required	none	Email address for the account holder. This has to be a properly formatted email address.
firstname	STRING	Optional	none	Firstname for the account holder
lastname	STRING	Optional	none	Lastname for the account holder
password	STRING	Optional	random string	Password for the account holder (if none is provided the system will generate one and send it to the user)
address1	STRING	Optional	none	The account holders address.
address2	STRING	Optional	none	A second line for the account holders address.
city	STRING	Optional	none	The account holders city.
language	STRING	Optional	none	The language the account holder is using.
state	STRING	Optional	none	The account holders state/province.
country	STRING	Optional	none	The account holders country.
postal	STRING	Optional	none	The account holders zip or postal code.
birthdate	STRING	Optional	none	The account holders birth date.
cellphone	STRING	Optional	none	The account holders cell phone.
phone	STRING	Optional	none	The account holders phone number.
website	STRING	Optional	none	The account holders website.
accounttype	STRING	Optional	0	The account type for the account holder.
occupation	STRING	Optional	none	The account holders occupation.
newsletter	BOOLEAN	Optional	0	Whether the account holder wants to receive a newsletter.
gender	CHAR	Optional	none	The account holders gender, acceptable values are M or F.
meta	STRING	Optional	none	Any meta data you wish to store about the account holder.
external_id	STRING	Optional	none	The id provided by a 3rd party external authorization system. NB: This is to be used with 'external_id_provider'.
external_id_provider	INTEGER	Optional	none	The integer that represents the 3rd party that provided the external id. Possible values are: 1 (Facebook) 4 (Janrain) 5 (Gigya) 6 (Stripe) 7 (Google) 8 (Apple) 9 (Twitter) 10 (Instagram) 11 (YouTube) NOTE: The external_id_provider is required if external_id is passed.

Sample Response

Sample REST Response
http://api.newspark.ca/services/rest/users/registerOrUpdate?vhost=[VHOST_ID]&userName=[USERNAME]&userData[firstname]=[USER_NEW_FIRSTNAME]&userData[meta][key]=[THE_NEW_VALUE]&APIKEY=[APIKEY]

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<result>NEW/UPDATED_USER_ID</result>

Sample JSON Response

{
    "status": true,
    "result": NEW/UPDATED_USER_ID
}

Code examples

PHP-RPC

$path = 'https://api.newspark.ca/services/php';

// Listing the arguments
$arguments = array(
  'APIKEY' => 'YOURAPIKEY',
  'method' => 'users.registerOrUpdate',
  'vhost' => '2',
  'userName' => $userName,
  'userData' => $userData,
  'returnUserInfo' => $returnUserInfo
);

// http_build_query basically turns an array into a url-encoded list of variables
$url = $path .'?' . http_build_query($arguments,null,'&');

// get the contents from the specified url
$data = file_get_contents($url);

// transform it back into php data structures
$data = unserialize($data);

// the actual data is stored in $data['result']

print_r($data['result']);

PEAR XMLRPC client

// Include the client
require_once 'XML/RPC.php';

// Create the XMLRPC Client
$client = new XML_RPC_Client('/services/xmlrpc?APIKEY={YOURAPIKEY}', 'api.newspark.ca');

// PEAR's XML-RPC client requires all arguments to wrapped in a special value class
// XML_RPC_encode converts this automatically

$arguments = array(
  XML_RPC_encode('2'),
  XML_RPC_encode($userName),
  XML_RPC_encode($userData),
  XML_RPC_encode($returnUserInfo)
);

// Creating an XML-RPC message
$message = new XML_RPC_Message('users.registerOrUpdate',$arguments);

// Sending the message to the server
$response = $client->send($message);

// We also need to decode the response back to normal PHP types
$response = XML_RPC_decode($response);

print_r($response);

SabreTooth XMLRPC client

// Include the client
require_once 'Sabre/XMLRPC/Client.php';

// Create the XMLRPC Client
$xmlrpc = new Sabre_XMLRPC_Client('https://api.newspark.ca/services/xmlrpc?APIKEY={YOURAPIKEY}');

$arguments = array(
  '2',
  $userName,
  $userData,
  $returnUserInfo
);

$data = $xmlrpc->invoke('users.registerOrUpdate',$arguments);

print_r($data);

Zend XMLRPC client

// Include the client
require_once 'Zend/XmlRpc/Client.php';

// Create the XMLRPC Client
$client = new Zend_XmlRpc_Client('https://api.newspark.ca/services/xmlrpc?APIKEY={YOURAPIKEY}');

$arguments = array(
  '2',
  $userName,
  $userData,
  $returnUserInfo
);

$data = $client->call('users.registerOrUpdate',$arguments);

print_r($data);

Actionscript 2

    /*
     *     In ActionScript 2 remote service calls are done using the RemotingConnector Component.
     *     An instance of the component must exist on the stage and have an instance name.
     *
     *     Results and Faults are handled by addEventListener's and the call parameters are placed inside of an associative array
     *
     *     You must also specify the service class and method names under the appropriate property fields of the component
     */

    var gatewayURL:String = "/services/amf2";
    //Set up service call
    myRemConn_rc.gatewayUrl = gatewayURL;
    myRemConn_rc.serviceName = "users";
    myRemConn_rc.methodName = "registerOrUpdate";
    myRemConn_rc.params = {2:vhost, userName:userName, userData:userData, returnUserInfo:returnUserInfo};
    myRemConn_rc.addEventListener("result", widgetResult);
    myRemConn_rc.addEventListener("status", widgetFault);

    //Make the call
    myRemConn_rc.trigger();

    /*
    *  Handles service result.
    */
    function widgetResult(ev:Object){
        //Do stuff
        //Data is returned inside of ev.target.results
        //(i.e. ev.traget.results.description or ev.traget.results.settings.color)
    }

    /*
    *  Handles service fault.
    */
    function widgetFault(ev:Object){
        //Display Error
        trace("Categories Error - " + ev.code + " -  " + ev.data.faultstring);
    }

Actionscript 3

    /*
     *  In ActionScript 3 remote service calls are done using the NetConnection Object.
     *  A Responder Object controls what functions handle successful or failed calls
     *  and any parameters for the call are placed in an array and passed as a parameter
     *  in the NetConnection.call() method.
     */

    var gatewayURL:String = "/services/amf2";
    var parameters:Array = new Array(vhost, userName, userData, returnUserInfo);

    var connection:NetConnection = new NetConnection();
    connection.connect(gatewayURL);
    connection.call("users.registerOrUpdate", new Responder(widgetResult, widgetFault), parameters);


    /*
     *   Handles service result.
     */
    function widgetResult(ev:Object):void{
        //Do stuff
        //Data is returned inside of ev
        //(i.e. ev.description or ev.settings.color)
    }


    /*
    *  Handles service fault.
    */
    function widgetFault(ev:Object):void{
        //Display Error
        error.showError(parentClip, ev.code + " -  " + ev.description, "Please refresh your browser to try again.");
        error.x = (parentClip.width - error.width) / 2;
        error.y = (parentClip.height - error.height) / 2;
    }

REST service example

<%@ Page Language="vb" %>
<%


' REST gateway
dim gateway as string = "http://api.newspark.ca/services/rest/"

' Service + method we're calling.
dim method as string = "users/registerOrUpdate"

dim apiKey as string = "YOURAPIKEY"

dim url as string = gateway & method & "?APIKEY=" & apiKey &  "&vhost=2" &  "&userName=" & userName

' HTTP Client
dim wcHTTPScrape as new System.net.WebClient()

' Opening a stream
dim objInput as System.IO.Stream = wcHTTPScrape.OpenRead(url)

dim objReader as new System.IO.StreamReader ( objInput )

' Reading the entire HTTP response and output it
Response.Write ( objReader.ReadToEnd () )


objReader.Close ()
objInput.Close ()

%>

jQuery JSON

/*
* jQuery post example
*/

function registerOrUpdate ( userName, userData, returnUserInfo ) {

var params = {
    "method" :      'users.registerOrUpdate',
    "vhost" :       2,
    "userName" :    userName,
    "userData" :    userData,
    "returnUserInfo" : returnUserInfo}

$.post('/services/json',params
,function(response){
    console.log(response);
});

Local API

// Get the Service Mapper

$mapper = Sabre_ServiceMap_Mapper::getMapper();

// Calling the method
$data = $mapper->users->registerOrUpdate( 2, $userName, $userData, $returnUserInfo );

print_r($data);

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Developer Documentation Portal

API Reference

Users.registerOrUpdate

Syntax

Arguments

userData Array

Sample Response

Sample REST Response
http://api.newspark.ca/services/rest/users/registerOrUpdate?vhost=[VHOST_ID]&userName=[USERNAME]&userData[firstname]=[USER_NEW_FIRSTNAME]&userData[meta][key]=[THE_NEW_VALUE]&APIKEY=[APIKEY]

Sample JSON Response

Code examples

PHP-RPC

PEAR XMLRPC client

SabreTooth XMLRPC client

Zend XMLRPC client

Actionscript 2

Actionscript 3

REST service example

jQuery JSON

Local API

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Developer Documentation Portal

API Reference

Users.registerOrUpdate

Syntax

Arguments

userData Array

Sample Response

Sample REST Responsehttp://api.newspark.ca/services/rest/users/registerOrUpdate?vhost=[VHOST_ID]&userName=[USERNAME]&userData[firstname]=[USER_NEW_FIRSTNAME]&userData[meta][key]=[THE_NEW_VALUE]&APIKEY=[APIKEY]

Sample JSON Response

Code examples

PHP-RPC

PEAR XMLRPC client

SabreTooth XMLRPC client

Zend XMLRPC client

Actionscript 2

Actionscript 3

REST service example

jQuery JSON

Local API

0 comments

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Sample REST Response
http://api.newspark.ca/services/rest/users/registerOrUpdate?vhost=[VHOST_ID]&userName=[USERNAME]&userData[firstname]=[USER_NEW_FIRSTNAME]&userData[meta][key]=[THE_NEW_VALUE]&APIKEY=[APIKEY]