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  • Dmitrij Jazel 86 posts 179 karma points
    Feb 10, 2013 @ 18:13
    Dmitrij Jazel
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    Working with members in C#

    Hej Guys,

    This one should be quite easy...

    I just downloaded newest umbraco 6.0 and playing arround with it...

    So what I am having trouble with:

    Pull out a member from all members by UserName.

    Than access it's properties (f.ex. Name)

    Than I want to add some other properties (like age, currentLocation and stuff like that...)...

     

    For now I have this...

    using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.UI;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls;
using System.Web.Security;

using umbraco.cms.businesslogic.member;

namespace members_test
{
    public partial class PublicIndex : System.Web.UI.UserControl
    {
        protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            string mbr_UserName = "pikachiu"
            MembershipUser member = System.Web.Security.Membership.GetUser(mbr_UserName);
            string email = member.Email; // <-- am getting null here!?

            //var member =  umbraco.cms.businesslogic.member.Member.GetMemberFromLoginName(mbr_UserName); <!-- this one is considered Obsolete!?...       
            }
    }
}

    But for some reason I am getting null pointer exception while accessing MembershipUser

    And another Member.getMemberFromLoginName() method says it's obsolete... so not sure what to do here :(

     

    //Dmitrij

     

     

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  • Dmitrij Jazel 86 posts 179 karma points
    Feb 10, 2013 @ 18:18
    Dmitrij Jazel
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    Edit:

    in the line string mbr_UserName ="pikachiu"

    I have ";" corrected... string mbr_UserName ="pikachiu";

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  • Charles Afford 1163 posts 1709 karma points
    Feb 10, 2013 @ 20:13
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    Hey Dmitrij,

    Have you checked that a member with the username called 'pikachiu' has been setup in Umbraco.

     

    string mbr_Email ="emailAddressYouSetupForTheUser"

    Also what do you get from: MembershipUser member =System.Web.Security.Membership.GetUserNameByEmail(mbr_Email);

    I am presuming you are in the umbraco context and hitting the breakpoint?

    Charlie. :)

     

     

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  • Dmitrij Jazel 86 posts 179 karma points
    Feb 10, 2013 @ 21:33
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    Hej Charles :-)

    Well yes, I have a Member with UserName "pikachiu".

    Regarding

    MembershipUser member =System.Web.Security.Membership.GetUserNameByEmail(mbr_Email);

    you suggest here.

    I am getting the same, I see that I am getting the instance of the member, the problem was that I could not call it's username (or in your case email - got the same issue) ... It needed to have .toString(); method, So when I called toString() on it, it actually works, but I wounder why it needs it, cause ".Email" is of type "string". So it works with .toString() for now...

     

    But than here comes another part of the question - if I choose this approach how can I manage Member properties (like Age, Job, Phone for example...).

     

    Thanks for help :-)

     

    //Dmitrij

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  • Charles Afford 1163 posts 1709 karma points
    Feb 10, 2013 @ 21:48
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    Ah that would atcually make sense 

    If instanciated a member and then called the GetUserNameByEmail method you should not have to cast.

    You second question is the same problem i am going to come up against next week. There are quite alot of forum posts about it. There does not seem to be a problem manageing the propertys. Create some auto properties Age Job Phone ect and then there should be be a method of the member to assign these. The problem appears to be saving these values back to the database.

    Take a look at this post:

    http://our.umbraco.org/forum/developers/api-questions/12348-member-profile-problem-45x?p=0#comment76619

    Please let me know if you get a solution working :D Thanks.  Charlie :)


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  • Dmitrij Jazel 86 posts 179 karma points
    Feb 10, 2013 @ 22:10
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    Hehe :-)

    I sure will try, I still look forward to discuss this toppic here until I get it done in the way how it's REALLY supposed to be done! :-)

    For now I am sticking to this approach: http://our.umbraco.org/wiki/how-tos/membership-providers

    And than I intent to use something called "user profiles" (look in the buttom of the page in that link).

    But at the same time I found this [http://www.aaron-powell.com/umbraco-members-profiles] thing here, lots of people discussed here

    But the problem is - I don't see the way how can I edit users in from Member administration in Umbraco, cause there are only "username" and email password etc... but if user has a profile picture or googleLocation f.ex... how do I find a way to do that? Is that possible to do through admin pannel, or I have to write my own umbraco section to manage that?

    Have a great evening :-)

    //Dmitrij

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  • Charles Afford 1163 posts 1709 karma points
    Feb 10, 2013 @ 22:52
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    When you are refering to users?  Do you mean members?  

    Users: People who can use umbraco

    Members: People who can log into the site.

    In Umbraco you can add custom properties to a member, as you would with a datatype.  Then you can interact with these using the member provider.  Having never done this before its going to be something new for me as well.  Will take a look at your resounces.  Thanks.  Charlei :)

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  • Charles Afford 1163 posts 1709 karma points
    Feb 10, 2013 @ 22:53
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    Yea that web config way seems valid.  I think i have read some people have had trouble with saving that information to the database.  But the webconfig way is how i am going to approach it i think :)

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  • Charles Afford 1163 posts 1709 karma points
    Feb 10, 2013 @ 22:57
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    That second link seems a bit of a suspect implimentation.  I just feel there must be an easier way to do it :).  Let me know what you find.  Have a great evening too :)  Charlie :)

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  • Dmitrij Jazel 86 posts 179 karma points
    Feb 10, 2013 @ 23:08
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    Hej again charles,

    By using "users" I meant Members, and I totally agree with your terminology :-)

    Cause the whole thing here is all about members :-)

    well aniways... yea sure, I am still sticking to first approach (the correct one) but I am keeping another one just in case.

    Let me know if you have some progress aswell :)))

    Cheers,

    //Dmitrij

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  • Charles Afford 1163 posts 1709 karma points
    Feb 11, 2013 @ 22:51
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    Replied to this in the other topic :)

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  • Dmitrij Jazel 86 posts 179 karma points
    Feb 11, 2013 @ 22:59
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    Hej Charls,

    yes I see now... thanks for help mate :-)))

    I will now try find some time and try actually going step by step in that article yous send me. (we both read last time)

    Only difference now I really understand it... :-)

    If any more problems will apear, I will let you know in that another post.

    Thanks alot for help so far!!! :-)))

     

    Regards,

    Dmitrij

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  • Charles Afford 1163 posts 1709 karma points
    Feb 12, 2013 @ 21:35
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    No problem :)

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