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I am attempting to call the API from some javascript running on the same website as CiviCRM. I added this to the page: /civicrm/user?reset=1. This environment is Drupal 6.x and CiviCRM 4.1.1

But the second and third "alert" never gets called.  Any suggestions?  BTW: What is the absolute path to "js/rest.js"

My source code inside my hook called "mymodule_civicrm_alterContent"

$tmp_js_path = "../{$config->resourceBase}js/rest.js";
      print "<br><br>js path: ".$tmp_js_path;
      
      $extra_js = "<script type='text/javascript' src='$tmp_js_path'></script>
            <script>
               function change_participant_status() {
        window.alert('Test');
       
        $().crmAPI('Contact','get',{'version' :'3', 'first_name' :'Sarah', 'last_name' :'Gladstone'}
         ,{ success:function (data){   
                $.each(data, function(key, value) { window.alert('has')  });
           }
        });
       
       window.alert('test 2');
      
        }  </script>";

1) use firebug, put breakpoints
2) use console.log instead of alert
3) you don't have to create a module to add a bit of js code in a civi page, use dave .extra.tpl

If your call is to change participant status, I have blogged an example I think a while ago (

Hi,

Try cj().crmAPI instead

Be sure that at least a jquery & js/rest.js are inserted

X°

Hi,

instead of 'participant_id', could you use 'id', that's the "more official" way (we handle both as aliases)?

As for the permissions, that's a two steps trick:

On the latest version of civi, we have introduced a new permission to access the API that you should give to your members (instead of access CiviCRM).

By itself, it will only let you access the API, but it will block on the next permission (Access civievent & Edit event participants).

To solve that, you'll need to write a custom module that uses the alterAPIPermissions hook to bypass the access civievent & Edit event participants for participant create/update.

You might want to add extra controls in the hook (eg. checking the user is modifying her participation record only and that's only the status or whatever your use case)

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

Would be great if you could blog about it when you get it working