I am using APEX 5.1.4
Know this is probably one of those very easy answers - just not sure what script is used in a Page Process to call a DB package. Know I need to pass the parameters and call the specific part of the package - just not sure what that page process script should be.
Need to pass in the values from page 3 - :P3_USER_ID (which is the user's email address) and the :P3_PASSWORD. The DB package is called PSPRT_AUTH_PKG and the part of the package is CREATE_ACCOUNT. Thanks!!
Think I found the answer...
use this in the page processing as PL/SQL code...
psprt_auth_pkg.create_account(:P3_USERNAME, :P3_PASSWORD);
Something like (you'll need to correct my made-up parameter names):
PSPRT_AUTH_PKG.CREATE_ACCOUNT
( p_user_id => :P3_USER_ID
, p_password => :P3_PASSWORD
);
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Hi I am working with the facebook javascript sdk and I am having succcess using fbml to list the logged in users name like so...
<fb:name uid="loggedinuser" useyou="false"></fb:name>
What I would like to do next is assign this value to a php variable and insert it into my database. The problem I'm having is when I assign this value to a php variable like so...
$first_name = ('<fb:name uid="loggedinuser" useyou="false"></fb:name>');
What gets inserted into the data base is the literal expression of
<fb:name uid="loggedinuser" useyou="false"></fb:name>
instead of the users real name. Is there anyway to do this with the javascript sdk? Thanks!
You need to get the variable of
<fb:name uid="loggedinuser" useyou="false"></fb:name>
before assigning it to
$first_name
FBML data is generated on the fly, there isn't a way to transfer data over like this since FBML would load later after PHP code is completed. In addition
$first_name = ('<fb:name uid="loggedinuser" useyou="false"></fb:name>');
Would never evaluate to anything other than a string, this is just how PHP works. This one line of code cannot possibly determine the nature within based on a string.
The JavaScript SDK offers a way to do this already
FB.api('/me', function(response) {
alert('Your name is ' + response.name);
});
Though this in JavaScript so you need to send the data in a AJAX call to your PHP application. It would be much easier if you just retrieved the session information after JS SDK login and let the PHP SDK take care of the rest.
I am currently making an app on apex.oracle.com, and I've been trying to solve this for a couple hours now, but I have no idea how to.
Alright, so basically my application has custom authentication based on a user table I created inside of my application. Therefore, it seems to render useless most APEX_UTIL functions to retrieve info on the current user. The issue is, I am trying to find a way to store the user's numeric ID from my table in the session, so I could retrieve it directly in the queries throughout my application, in order to do something like WHERE id = :MEMBER_ID instead of WHERE UPPER(username) = UPPER(:APP_USER).
Now, the way I attempted to do this is by creating a Post Authentication procedure that retrieves the user ID based on the username, and stores that value in the session using APEX_UTIL.SET_SESSION_STATE( p_name => 'MEMBER_ID', p_value => member_id ). However, it seems that SET_SESSION_STATE is unable to create custom session values or something, returning an ERR-1002 every time I use a value name that isn't specifically mentioned in the documentation.
I am a total newbie to APEX so I am probably unaware of something, however I have done many searches, but I could not find anything specifically related to my issue.
Thanks a lot if you can help.
You're trying to store a value into an item, whether page or application level. This requires that the item with that name exists in one of those scopes. So, do you have an item somewhere that is called MEMBER_ID?
I'd suggest you create one in the application scope. Go through Shared Components > Application items. Once created, you should be able to assign a value either through apex_util.set_session_state or with bind variable syntax eg :MEMBER_ID := somevariable;
There are a number of ways you can do this. Some have already been suggested in other answers.
Application Item (as per Tom's answer)
PL/SQL package global (as per hol's answer) - although you'd have to reset it for each call (e.g. by adding code to the application's Security Attribute Initialization PL/SQL Code and clearing it by adding code to Cleanup PL/SQL Code).
Globally Accessible Context - this method, while a little more complex, has some benefits especially for security and debugging. I've described it here: http://jeffkemponoracle.com/2013/02/28/apex-and-application-contexts/, but basically:
Create a globally accessible context:
CREATE OR REPLACE CONTEXT MY_CONTEXT USING MY_PACKAGE ACCESSED GLOBALLY;
In the post-authentication procedure (in the database package MY_PACKAGE), you can store the data you wish to keep track of, e.g.
DBMS_SESSION.set_context
(namespace => 'MY_CONTEXT'
,attribute => 'MEMBER_ID'
,value => '12345whatever'
,client_id => v('APP_USER') || ':' || v('APP_SESSION'));
(note the caveats in my blog article and the subsequent comments from others about CLIENT_IDENTIFIER not being reliably set at the post-auth stage)
In your views, code, etc. you can access the MEMBER_ID by simply referring to SYS_CONTEXT('MY_CONTEXT','MEMBER_ID').
I have a php script (ini.php), that open in an iframe inside of "main.php":
<iframe src='ini.php' style='width:650px;' frameborder='0' id="IDMain" allowtransparency="YES" scrolling="NO"></iframe>
The SQL does not retrieve the data in "ini.php".
But if I incorporate the code of "ini.php" in "main.php", without using an iframe, the query retrieves all the information.
I must have an iframe in order to change all the different scripts in the same iframe.
Any help here?
Thanks
In addition more information:
The main.php is in session after logged. Previously I had the whole frame repeated in each script, and everything was ok.main.php, ini.php, and so on. Each script with header, left, right, main and footer. To make it faster and easier I decide to make the main script called main.php, that with an included script called config.inc.php that has several functions, also connects to data base, to retrieve some data to the header, left , right and footer sides of the main area (iframe) where the others different scripts, just to opens inside of a iframe, maintaining the information around. Each script, (like ini.php), that runs in the iframe also include the config.inc.php file, to connect as well to database. But does not retrieve any information
The connection to database in config script is:
<$connect=mysql_connect ("localhost","database","password") or die ('I cannot connect to the database because: ' . mysql_error());
mysql_select_db ("database", $connect) or die ("'I cannot connect to the database "); >
The query in ini,php (and others) is:
`
if ($id) {
$id_session=$_SESSION['id_session'];
$namesession=$_SESSION['name_session'];
$sql="select * from data where id='$id_sessino' limit 1 ";
$result=mysql_db_query("database",$sql);
$regist=mysql_fetch_array($result);
$id=$regist["id"];
$id_session=$regist["id"];
$namesession=$regist["name_session"];
$country=$regist["country"];
And soo on…
}
`
I hope with is information it makes it clear what do I mean. Thank you
Check PHP help for mysql_db_query. Since you are not giving it any open db link, it tries to do some default magic, which likely fails, because, as I mentioned in the comment, the two scripts (in parent window and inside the iframe) are run separately and have no idea about each other *unless you are doing some synchronizing, that isn't shown in the code snippets. That means that the iframe script doesn't know anything about the connection you've opened in the parent page, and fails. Check your logs, you should see some E_WARNING complaints (if you are logging this level).
Also, as the documentation says, you might be better off with MySQLi or PDO_MySQL extensions. But the principle will remain the same - the script in questoin has to have an open connection to the database (and I'm not sure whether you can easily and safely transfer an open from one script to the other one, so you'll likely have to do it all in the iframe script).
Try two things, first I would change the MySQL_fetch_array part to
While($regist = mysql_fetch_array($result))
{
//Code goes here
}
Secondly try referring to the array vales as numbers rather than names, so regist['id'] would become regist[0]. They will be in the order the are in the database.
Also since you select your database when creating connection why not just use mysql_query("QUERY HERE"); Rather than mysql_db_query
I added a custom eav attribute to my Magento application product entity using an installer script (Basically, following the procedure described here: Installing Custom Attributes with Your Module). Now, I want to use an update script to change (populate) the values of this attribute for each product according to some criteria (based on the product category). The script I attempted to use was essentially like this:
$attributeValues = array(...) // Map from $productId to the desired $value
$product = Mage::getModel('catalog/product');
foreach($attributeValues as $productId=>$value){
$product->load($productId)->setMyAttribute($value);
$product->save();
}
My questions would then be: Is it ok to use this level of abstraction (Mage::getModel('catalog/product') and its methods) in update scripts? If it isn't, how would you recommend to change these attribute values using update scripts (without requiring sql)?
The script I used (until now) has not worked and failed with the error:
Call to a member function getStoreIds() on a non-object
in a magento core file.
I don't know if this error is a Magento bug or is a problem with how I'm using the update scripts.
I'm using Magento 1.4.0.1
Data update scripts are the way to go
Simply use a data upgrade script for this. This is a script placed in the data folder instead of the sql folder. Those scripts run later then the database structure updates, and allow access to more functionality.
Example file names:
app/code/local/My/Module/data/your_setup/data-install-0.1.0.php
app/code/local/My/Module/data/your_setup/data-upgrade-0.1.0-0.2.0.php
This is already available in Magento 1.4.
Try adding Mage::app()->setUpdateMode(false) in your sql upgrade script. e.g.
$installer = new Mage_Eav_Model_Entity_Setup('core_setup');;
$installer->startSetup();
Mage::app()->setUpdateMode(false);
Mage::app()->setCurrentStore('your_store_code_here');
If you look in Mage::app()->getStore() you will see the following snippet that returns an incorrect store which is required for saving a product.
if (!Mage::isInstalled() || $this->getUpdateMode()) {
return $this->_getDefaultStore();
}
I am having an issue with the "Profile Checkboxes" module which stores custom profile fields comma separated.
The issue is if I create a view to filter by a value. The SQL result ends up being something like this:
...AND (profile_values_profile_interests.value in ('Business and Investment'))...
Which will not return any data since the value is stored like this:
"Business and Investment, Case Law, Labor Law, Tax Law"
I just need to adjust the SQL so that it is making sure the field contains the selected value
Is there anything I can do to adjust this?
For a 'quick hack' solution, you could try implementing hook_views_query_alter(&$view, &$query) in a custom module, check $view->name (and eventually also $view->current_display) to ensure you are dealing with the right view/display, and then manipulate $query as needed.
EDIT: Looks like the underlying problem has been addressed by the module maintainer in the meantime - see John's answer ...
I'm the creator and maintainer of Profile Checkboxes and thought you might be interested to know that the new version of the module now stores the values as serialized and includes Views support. The feature is available in the current release version.
Check out the Views modify query module.