Api Users Login

[mikebloom]

Hi,

 

I'm trying to use the blesta api to login clients but I can't get it to work. Other API calls is working e.g. users get. Could somebody maybe explain to me how the API works and help me out with my script, I'm guessing it has something to do with sessions. I'm getting a blank page with the following code:

<?php
require_once "blesta_api.php";

$user = "api";
$key = "70db2394eb4aa4575fcd1899ee1ed951";
$url = "http://192.168.1.1/index.php/api/";
  
$api = new BlestaApi($url, $user, $key);
 
$data = array(
    'vars' => array(
        'username' => "test",
        'password' => "password",
        'remember_me' => "false",
        'ip_address' => "192.168.0.1"
    )
);
$response = $api->get("users", "login", $data);
 
print_r($response->response());
print_r($response->errors());
?>

Regards,

Mike

[Tyson]

Yes, it doesn't look like you're passing in a reference to the session. Users::login() requires the first parameter to be the session, followed by the vars, but you have vars as the first paramater. You should also perform a post request, rather than get for that action.

 

If you're attempting to setup a shared login with another system, you may want to use the Shared Login plugin instead.

[lawrence-ytz]

I'm having the similar issue, what type of data needs to be passed in the Session parameter?  

 

The error I'm recieving is:

object(stdClass)#4 (1) { ["error"]=> object(stdClass)#3 (2) { ["message"]=> string(28) "An unexpected error occured." ["response"]=> string(25) "Parameter is not optional" } } 
Parameter is not optional

 

My code is as below:

 

$data = array(

  'Session' => 123456,

  'vars' => array(

    'username' => $email,

    'password' => $password,

    'remember_me' => false,

    'ip_address' => '1.1.1.1'

  )

);

 

$response = $api->post("users", "login", $data);

[Tyson]

As shown in the docs, the first parameter must be an object of type Session, which represents the user's session. The Session is a component included with Blesta.

[lawrence-ytz]

So how can the Session Cookie be set if the api only supports calling Model methods, and setSessionCookie is a component?

[Tyson]

Users::login attempts to set a session cookie if you set $vars['remember_me'] to true, if the Session already contains an entry for "blesta_session_cookie" which is set to true, and the user does not require two factor authentication.

 

Since you pass in the Session to that method, you can set your own cookie instead by calling it directly.

[lawrence-ytz]

Well I wouldn't want to set remember_me to true to get around it.  

 

I've given up on users::login, and am now trying to use users::auth, but it keeps returning false, is the password parameter plane text or encrypted?

[Tyson]

Yes, the password is expected to be given in plain text.