How do I get a member listing?

[Owen Winkler]

I've been struggling on and off for a few days trying to work with the REST interface to embed a list of members of my network along with their profile photos into an external site.

It seems like I should be able to obtain a list of members using this REST url:

https://rockriverstar.ning.com/xn/atom/1.0/content(type='Users')?order=createdDate@D

But this URL returns no results when I know there are several.

Reading some threads in the forum, it seems that I may need to authenticate to Ning to obtain this listing. This is not a problem as I intend to obtain the listing via PHP on my server and cache it for a while anyway. But basing my code on the sample code I found here, I have been unable to obtain a list of members of my network:

http://restdemos.ning.com/code.php

I have tried using curl to connect to Ning with CURLOPT_USERPWD on a GET request of the URL above, but I get the same empty results. Only when I try to publish new content to the network does the authentication seem to do anything.

Can someone please point me to some sample code in PHP that does what I want? It seems like listing members would be a pretty common task. If that's not available, are there any hints or documentation of how to get (not insert) "private" data like a member listing from the network using PHP?

Thanks,
Owen Winkler

[Owen Winkler]

Replace (type='Users') with (type='User').

[FearFox]

I am doing something similar. I suggest you look at the Wordpress Ning authentication plugin (can be found somewhere on these forums).

There are basically 3 Curl calls:
1. to authenticate your user
2. to authenticate yourself as the administrator
3. to pull the profile information about your user

You can throw out part #1, and modify part #3 by taking out email=$user_email - then it will just pull all users in your network.

[Owen Winkler]

Thanks for the reply. I did get things working a bit more smoothly with a single curl call, but I will look into the WP plugin just to see if what I'm doing is kosher.

Thanks again.

[FearFox]

Glad you got it to work. Would you mind sharing what you did?

[Mike Nicholson]

Hello Owen!

Cool avatar :)

You may want to check out this tutorial. It describes how to fetch other private objects using the REST APIs. It can be adapted pretty easily to fetch a member list.

Cheers!
Mike

[RajYahoo]

Hello Everyone,

I have a different requirement. Is there a REST way to get list of all networks a user is part of?

Thanks,
Raj

[kakaiba]

Can we do this within Ning? I've been wanting to get my members list but I only get the ID in this format:

2107362:User:42
2107362:User:1

In my understanding, the "2107362" is the application ID for my network and the "User:{number}" is the member ID with regards to my network. I got that result using XN_Query.

[kakaiba]

Thought it took me awhile, I already got it. I just played with the objects and used XN_Query::debugHtml(). =)