Author Topic: using userID within a hook (Read 1079 times)

dflorence · October 19, 2012, 02:30:58 pm

I want to write my first civicrm_post hook. This needs to add newly created contacts to particular groups depending on the group membership of the user currently logged in.

have created a Joomla (2.5) plugin. with CIVI 4.1 t do this.

I've got the code working to the extent that the newly created contact is ALWAYS added to a particular group, I just need to work out how to get the userID of the current user so I can extend the code to only allocate the newly created contact to a group if the logged in user is of a particular type.

I have tried

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$userID = $session->get( 'userID' ); but get the error "Fatal error: Call to a member function get() on a non-object"

I have also tried using

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$userID=$_SESSION['userID'], which returns nothing at at all.

I have tried using Session_start() just in case the session variables are not there - still nothing.

I get the feeling I'm missing something simple, this is my first civi install, so pointers that don't take anything for granted would be appreciated

totten · October 19, 2012, 03:08:39 pm

Quote from: dflorence on October 19, 2012, 02:30:58 pm

I have tried
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$userID = $session->get( 'userID' ); but get the error "Fatal error: Call to a member function get() on a non-object"

Have you made a call to lookup $session first?

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$session = CRM_Core_Session::singleton();
$contactID = $session->get('userID');

dflorence · October 19, 2012, 03:19:06 pm

Thanks, I didn't know I needed to do that.

Works fine now.

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