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Hi,

You have to give them access to civicrm. Based on the query you want to do, you might have to give them more rights.

This is probably way too much rights and power for anonymous users that you feel comfortable with.

As of the next version of civi, you'll have a hook to be able to grant different rights to some specific api actions including for anonymous, right now, you need to give at least "access to civicrm".

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Any suggestions on how to otherwise present them with the data I want?
Will I have to do my own direct sql call?

Instead of SQL, you could write a small Drupal module which calls the API in PHP and returns the data. Then your Ajax can call that function via the URL you will create for it. Then that URL (in hook_menu) can be restricted by whatever permissions you choose.

Dear reader from the future,

This solution is nice and works and will still be working.

As of 4.1 (or 4.0.7?) there is another option (I should blog about it soon)

- write a custom api (in your api/v3/Whatever.php) ie. a function civicrm_api3_whatever_do ()
- and use the permission hook to grant anonymous the right on api.whatever.do

Probably about the same amount of work as bouton did, but it would allow you to use your function from smarty, REST...


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