Setting User Active State via API Not Updating Manager View

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audioroger Reply #1, 6 years, 6 months ago

Hello MODX'ers,

I've got a script that checks MODX users against an external API and marks them as active or inactive based on the response.

I can successfully set the user active state both with the MODX API and in the database directly, but neither method displays the change in the MODX manager by making the "Active" checkbox checked or unchecked respectively. This means the only way to really check the user's active state is by looking in the database.

To be clear, the user login does respect the active state set in the database, but the display in the MODX manager does not get updated.

I'm wondering if there is some user cache that I need to clear after saving the user in order for it to display in the manager.

Here is the simple code I am using to set the user active state:

$userid = 1;
$user = $modx->getObject('modUser', $userid);
  if($user){
    $user->set('active', 1);
    if($user->save() == false){
      $modx->log(modX::LOG_LEVEL_ERROR,'$user active state not saved for user id: '.$userid);
    }
  }

This is in MODX 2.5.8 hosted with MODX Cloud.

Thanks for any help!
- Roger

This question has been answered by BobRay. See the first response.

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BobRay Reply #2, 6 years, 6 months ago

As far as I can tell, data on individual users is not cached at all. You could verify that by adding this code at the end, which will clear the entire cache:

$cm = $modx->getCacheManager();
$cm->refresh();

If the active checkbox is still not updated, it's not a MODX cache issue. Don't forget to remove that code, since it will slow down your site considerably.

I wonder if it might be your browser cache. See if adding a bogus query parameter to your URL makes a difference.

https://bobsguides.com/mgnr/?a=security/user/update&id=1&bogusparam=12

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BobRay Reply #3, 6 years, 6 months ago

I had another thought.

Try this:

if($user->save(true) == false){

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audioroger Reply #4, 6 years, 6 months ago

Quote from: BobRay at Oct 17, 2017, 04:02 PM

I had another thought.

Try this:
if($user->save(true) == false){

Thanks, @BobRay you're my hero!

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BobRay Reply #5, 6 years, 6 months ago

Thanks for the kind words.

That argument sets the cacheFlag for the xPDOObject's save() method. It affects the xPDO cache layer, not the MODX cache. The save() code always confuses me, but I think setting it to true says to cache the results, but mark them as modified. You can also send an integer that determines how long the object remains in the cache.

Are you running some external cache like memcached, wincache, or APC?

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audioroger Reply #6, 6 years, 6 months ago

Nope, just normal MODX cache.

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BobRay Reply #7, 6 years, 6 months ago

Ah ... just looked at the xPDO cachemanager class.

In that case it creates cache files. They're in the temp directory, which is why I couldn't find them.

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audioroger Reply #8, 6 years, 6 months ago

Ok, good because I looked all over the /core/cache folder, thought I was going crazy.

Me too.

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