Trying to searching registered user data in the front end as an admin

Check out the UpdateProfile snippet in the Login package.

The Profile snippet will take any user with the &user parameter. Unfortunately, UpdateProfile won’t (though it would be a good feature request).

Just thinking out loud, you could modify the UpdateProfile snippet to accept a &user parameter (and then submit that as an improvement). You could create a page with a form to select the user. On repost, if the user was found, you could set a $_SESSION variable with the user ID and forward to the page with UpdateProfile on it. On that page, you could have a snippet at the top that set a placeholder from the $_SESSION variable for use in the &user parameter. You’d probably also want to set another $_SESSION variable with a password for security to be checked in the snippet.

$if ($_SESSION['password']=='something' {
    $modx->setPlaceholder('session_user_id', $_SESSION['user_id'];
    return "";
}

[[UpdateProfile? &user=`[[+session_user_id]]`]]

Mind you, I haven’t looked at the UpdateProfile snippet to see how easy it would be to add the &user parameter, but in theory, it shouldn’t be too hard to see if $scriptProperties[’user’] is not empty, and if so, use it instead of $modx->user.

Just to elaborate on Bob’s idea a bit, to list members I use the following really simple snippet that works with getPage, if you have lots of users:

<?php
/**********************************************************************************************
* getUsers - gets MODx users
*
*	tpl - chunk for output
*	group - (optional) a group name
*	limit - (optional) used by get page - defaults to 0
*	offset - (optional) used by get page - defaults to 0
*	totalVar - (optional) used by get page - defaults to 'total'
**********************************************************************************************/
$group = !empty($group) ? $group : '';
$tpl = !empty($tpl) ? $tpl : '';
$limit = !empty($limit) ? (int) $limit : 0;
$offset = !empty($offset) ? (int) $offset : 0;
$totalVar = !empty($totalVar) ? $totalVar : 'total';

$criteria = $modx->newQuery('modUser', array());
if (!empty($limit)) $criteria->limit($limit, $offset);


$users = $modx->getCollection('modUser', $criteria);
$output = '';

$i = 1;
foreach($users as $user) {
	if (empty($group) || $user->isMember($group)) {
		$p = $user->getOne('Profile');
		
		$tpl_args = array();
		$tpl_args['id'] = $user->get('id');
		$tpl_args['username'] = $user->get('username');
		
		if ($p) {		
			// this is all i needed - if you want more attributes check out the bottom of bob's objects page: http://www.bobsguides.com/revolution-objects.html
			$tpl_args['fullname'] = $p->get('fullname');
			$tpl_args['email'] = $p->get('email');
			$tpl_args['logincount'] = $p->get('logincount');
		}
		
		// (optional) i like to do this in case my users show up in a drop down list, so i can pass on a selected value to the chunk
		$tpl_args['selected'] = $selected;
		// (optional) i use this in chunks for odd, last, etc
		$tpl_args['idx'] = $i;

		$output .= $modx->getChunk($tpl, $tpl_args);
		++$i;	
	}
}

$modx->setPlaceholder($totalVar, $i);
return $output;

Then to update users, you can modify the UpdateProfile snippet that comes with login really easily. I’d make a copy of it with a new name, just so you can still update the Login package.

Change line 43 from this:

if (!$modx->user->hasSessionContext($modx->context->get('key'))) {

To this:

if (!$modx->user->hasSessionContext($modx->context->get('key')) && $modx->user->isMember('Administrator')) {

Just to make sure you aren’t letting anybody update your users, only administrators.

Next change line 52 from this:

$profile = $modx->user->getOne('Profile');

To this:

$user = $modx->getOne('modUser', $userID));
if(empty($user)) return '';
$profile = $user->getOne('Profile');

The $userID will have to be passed to the UpdateProfile snippet, so you may want to throw a line at the top validating it a bit:

$userID = !empty($userID) ? (int) $userID : 1;

Then I’d just send the user ID to the editing page with a GET, and pass that argument on to the snippet. I can’t honestly say I’ve tried the update profile changes before, but it looks pretty straightforward.

Quote from: swespi at Apr 03, 2011, 12:09 PM

The $userID will have to be passed to the UpdateProfile snippet, so you may want to throw a line at the top validating it a bit:

$userID = !empty($userID) ? (int) $userID : 1;

Then I’d just send the user ID to the editing page with a GET, and pass that argument on to the snippet. I can’t honestly say I’ve tried the update profile changes before, but it looks pretty straightforward.

$userID = !empty($userID) ? (int) $userID : 1;