Remove the "logout" but *KEEP* the account *OR* is the a LogOutRedirect option?

Know what?

Since it's only the user's full name and email address that I care about, it wouldn't be too unweildy to write a clause into the embedding page that will check these each time and update these two values if nescessary.

So never mind.

HOWEVER, if anyone wants to give me hints and pointers on how to write that ($user = $gallery->getActiveUser() gives me the active user but what class is the active user in? What methods can I call? How do I set his full name and email?) I'd be grateful but I'm going to look in the DOCs and see if I can figure it out.

Thank you, I hope. I figured pretty quickly that I wanted to do something like:

$user = $gallery->getActiveUser();
if ($user->fullName != $member['first']." ".$member['last'])
$user->setFullName($member['first']." ".$member['last']);
if ($user->email != $member['email'])
$user->setEmail($member['email']);

But immediately I discovered that for some reason

$user = $gallery->getActiveUserId(); $user == 31 (which is as I'd expect)

BUT

$user = $gallery->getActiveUser(); $user = '' ???HUH????

So are you saying "$user" is a pre-defined variable (as $gallery seems to be)?

If not, do you have any idea why $gallery->getActiveUser() returns a null????

Here's my code. Any comment will be appreciated:

function runGallery($member) {
    // $member an associative array, represents my web site user information
    // i.e. $member['id'] = my web site user's id, $member['first'] - my web site user's first name, etc. etc.
    // $member = null, if no-one is logged into my web site 

    require_once('./gallery2/embed.php');
    $data = array();
    $uid = ($member) ? $member['id'] : ''; 
       //so you get it, right?  $uid is the external idea or empty string depending on whether my web site user is logged in 
	
    $init_array = array('g2Uri' => '/photos/gallery2/', 
				    'embedUri' => '/photos/main.php',
				    'activeUserId' => $uid);
					'loginRedirect' => "/login/LogIn.php");
//obviously this is what I'm going to use to initialize the embedding

	if ($_SESSION['gallery']){
		$init_array['gallerySessionId'] = $_SESSION['gallery'];
	}
//Okay, that bit is probably crap, but I tossed it in because I was having trouble with expiring sessions.
//It's probably not doing any harm or any good, but... well I figured I should paste it in just in case it's doing something weird
 
    // initiate G2 
    $ret = GalleryEmbed::init($init_array);

    if ($ret) {
     	/* Error! */
     	/* Did we get an error because the user doesn't exist in g2 yet? */
     	$ret2 = GalleryEmbed::isExternalIdMapped($uid, 'GalleryUser');
     	if ($uid && $ret2 && $ret2->getErrorCode() & ERROR_MISSING_OBJECT) {
         	/* The user does not exist in G2 yet. Create in now on-the-fly */
         	$ret = GalleryEmbed::createUser($uid, array('username' => $member['username'],
                                                         'password' => $member['password'],
								'fullname' => $member['first']." ".$member['last'],
								'email' => $member['email']));

//The creating a user works just fine.  Cut and pasted it directly from the Docs.
			if(! $ret)
				$ret = GalleryEmbed::init($init_array);

     	}
   }
   if ($ret){	
      $data['bodyHtml'] = $ret->getAsHtml();
      return $data;
    }
//return errors: not relevant

Okay, at this point we've initialize the G2 and set the active user id.
But is it possible that we've only set the id and *not* created the user?????

The next part of my code deals with checking whether my web user is in the proper groups. (On my web site a logged in member has 'status' that is one of the four terms-- 'admin', 'assoc member', 'member', or 'guest'-- perhaps 'guest' and 'member' were a poor choice of words as they mean completely different things in other context so keep in mind that $member['status'] == 'guest' just means that the logged-in *and* registered user of my web site has a characteristic called g-u-e-s-t. I want to make sure that if my web user is a g-u-e-s-t then as a G2 user he is put in a G2 group called 'visitors' but otherwise he is put in a group called 'full'. Again, perhaps not the best choice of terms.)

(With me so far?)

	
	if ($member){
		// Cookieless browsing.  I shouldn't have to use this but I got some 'sessionid expired' buggies
		$gallerySessionId = GalleryEmbed::getSessionId(); 
		$_SESSION['gallery'] = $gallerySessionId;
		
		//Rio Piedras Members go to group "full", logged-in Rio Piedras "guests" go to group "visitors"
		if ($member['status'] == 'guest')
			$g_name = "visitors";
		else
			$g_name ="full";
		$g = GalleryCoreApi::fetchGroupByGroupName($g_name);
		$g_id = $g[1]->getId();
		$u_id = $gallery->getActiveUserId();
		$in_group = GalleryCoreApi::isUserInGroup($u_id, $g_id);
		if (! $in_group[1])
			$ret = GalleryCoreApi::addUserToGroup($u_id, $g_id);

and *that* part of the code works just fine! (Which actually surprised me!!!)

But here's my current perplexity:

			
		//check full name and e-mail
		$user = $gallery->getActiveUser();

//  $user == null!!!  ???HUH???
//		$user = $gallery->activeUser;

//  $user is *still* null;

		if ($user->fullName != $member['first']." ".$member['last'])
			$user->setFullName($member['first']." ".$member['last']);
		if ($user->email != $member['email'])
			$user->setEmail($member['email']);
//That part doesn't run but with some tweaking I've figured out is is simply because $user is null		
		
	}else{
             //if no-one is logged on to my web-site, unset $_SESSION['gallery'], this should just be crap...
		unset($_SESSION['gallery']);
	}


    // handle the G2 request
    $g2moddata = GalleryEmbed::handleRequest();


    .... rest of code not particularly relevant...
}

So... I'm trying to get the active user *before* I send the request. Is *that* the problem? I'm doing a bunch of crap with session ids. Is *that* the problem?

Or is it... I dunno ....

Yes, GalleryEmbed::done(); commits any GalleryEmbed methods.
this is my usual init:

function init($full = false) {
    require_once ('embed.php');
    $ret = GalleryEmbed::init(array('fullInit'=>$full, 'embedUri'=>'/media/index.php', 'g2Uri'=>'/gallery2/'));
    if ($ret) {
        print 'GalleryEmbed::init failed, here is the error message: '.$ret->getAsHtml();
        exit;
    }
    GalleryEmbed::done();
}

First run we just get gallery running $full=false
Then after we figure out our user we re-init $full=true

-s
FlashYourWeb and Your Gallery with The E2 XML Media Player for Gallery2

Now I'm having trouble that

$user->setFullName($member['first']." ".$member['last']);

Doesn't seem to set the user's full name in the database. !!Argh!!

Because $gallery->activeUser is only the current instance of the user and not the permanent record of the user????

function runGallery($member) {

   require_once('./gallery2/embed.php');
   $data = array();
	
   $uid = ($member) ? $member['id'] : '';
   $init_array = array('g2Uri' => '/photos/gallery2/', 
				    'embedUri' => '/photos/main.php',
				    'activeUserId' => $uid,
					'loginRedirect' => "/login/LogIn.php");
 
    // initiate G2 
    $ret = GalleryEmbed::init($init_array);

    if ($ret) {
     	/* Error! */
     	/* Did we get an error because the user doesn't exist in g2 yet? */
     	$ret2 = GalleryEmbed::isExternalIdMapped($uid, 'GalleryUser');
     	if ($uid && $ret2 && $ret2->getErrorCode() & ERROR_MISSING_OBJECT) {
         	/* The user does not exist in G2 yet. Create in now on-the-fly */
         	$ret = GalleryEmbed::createUser($uid, array('username' => $member['username'],
                                                         'password' => $member['password'],
								'fullname' => $member['first']." ".$member['last'],
								'email' => $member['email']));
			if(! $ret)
				$ret = GalleryEmbed::init($init_array);
     	}
     }
     if ($ret){	
      $data['bodyHtml'] = $ret->getAsHtml();
      return $data;
     }

    // handle the G2 request
    $g2moddata = GalleryEmbed::handleRequest();

    //update user if nescessary
    if ($member){
		$user = $gallery->getActiveUser();
              /*  NOW $user is the active user */
              /*  $user->fullName == "Sam Good" */
              /*  BUT it should be "Mike Bad"   */
              /*  because $member['first'] = "Mike" and $member['last']


		if ($user->getFullName != $member['first']." ".$member['last']){
			$user->setFullName($member['first']." ".$member['last']);
		}
		if ($user->email != $member['email'])
			$user->setEmail($member['email']);		
    }

    // show error message if isDone is not defined
    if (!isset($g2moddata['isDone'])) {
      $data['bodyHtml'] = 'isDone is not defined, something very bad must have happened.';
      return $data;
    }
    // exit if it was an immediate view / request (G2 already outputted some data)
    if ($g2moddata['isDone']) {
	exit; 
    }
   
    // put the body html from G2 into the xaraya template 
    $data['bodyHtml'] = isset($g2moddata['bodyHtml']) ? $g2moddata['bodyHtml'] : '';

    ....
    
    return $data;
} 

Okay. I think I know whats going on.

I need to use GalleryEmbed::updateUser($uid, array('full_name'=>$real_full_name, 'email'=>$real_name));

*and* I need to do it *before* I handle the request.

*but* I don't know how to get the user's fullname, email, or anything from either the external or internal id, when the user isn't *yet* the active user.

So after much headache I've got this code that works!!!!!

Here it is (minus error handling):

function runGallery($member) {
    require_once('./gallery2/embed.php');
    $data = array();
    $uid = ($member) ? $member['id'] : '';
    $init_array = array('g2Uri' => '/photos/gallery2/', 
			'embedUri' => '/photos/main.php',
			'activeUserId' => $uid,
			'loginRedirect' => "/login/LogIn.php");

    $ret = GalleryEmbed::init($init_array);
    if ($member){
	//update user
	//since I don't know how to get user->fullName 
      //from neither the external or internal id, 
      //I'll *always* update

      GalleryEmbed::updateUser($uid, 
         array('fullname' => $member['full_name'],
	  'email' => $member['email']));

    }

   $g2moddata = GalleryEmbed::handleRequest();
   $data['bodyHtml'] = isset($g2moddata['bodyHtml']) ? $g2moddata['bodyHtml'] : '';
   return $data;
} 

The only thing is I really *don't* like requesting user update *every* time *any* user views *any* page just because I don't know how to check what a user's info is.

So, how do I get user info from an id either external or internal when the user is not the active user yet?

Oh, and thanks for your help. It's been a learning experience.