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Hello,

 I 'm trying to add a new form with 4 questions on the first connexion of the user to Elgg. I managed to add it using a plugin on the login page of my website but now i want to process it when the user click on submit. I think i must add something in the function init of my plugin to tell Elgg with wich file proceed the result.

Thank you for your help !

Sylvain

In http://classic.elgg.org/trac/ticket/277 it was pointed out that the entries in auth/multiple/auth.ini for ldap_search_attr should be separate i.e.

ldap_search_attr[] = givenName
ldap_search_attr[] = sn
ldap_search_attr[] = mail

which after parse_ini_file does its work gives

             [ldap_search_attr] => Array
                (
                    [0] => givenName
                    [1] => sn
                    [2] => mail
                )

The next problem is that as the comment at the top of auth/ldap/lib.php says it should be

          $CFG->ldap_search_attr = array('firstname' => 'givenname',
                                         'lastname' => 'sn',
                                         'mail' => 'mail');

As the code later in the file uses

                $user->email = $user_info["mail"];
                $user->name  = $user_info["firstname"];
                $user->name  = $user->name . " " . $user_info["lastname"];

Since I want multiple ldap sources I want auth.ini to work but how to change it 0, 1, and 2 do not say what the attributes represent if all ldap sources use the same sn, mail, and givenName then I could uncomment the line at the top of the lib.php.

Interestingly most comments on how to do ldap still refer to putting the parameters directly into the config.php file.

 

Hello all!

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