== iPeer v2 Technical Documentation ==
=== rdAuth Components: ===
rdAuth components monitors the current user’s information such as id, role, username, fullname. To get the current user’s attribute, we can call:
From View: $rdAuth->id
From Controller: $this->rdAuth->id
=== Sys_Parameter Settings: ===
System Parameters are loaded once the users has login successfully. There are 2 core parameters that control the iPeer integration with UBC CWL:
For General version:
||Parameter Code||Parameter Value||
||custom.login_control||ipeer
||custom.login_page_pathname||Leave it as empty
For UBC CWL customization:
||Parameter Code||Parameter Value
||custom.login_control||UBC_CWL
||custom.login_page_pathname||custom_ubc_cwl_login
To check whether the iPeer is UBC CWL integrated or not:
{{{
if (isset($this->rdAuth->customIntegrateCWL) && $this->rdAuth->customIntegrateCWL) {
// ipeer is integrated with CWL
}
}}}
=== Get Sys_Parameter from iPeer: ===
e.g. Get the parameter code ‘system.upload_dir’:
{{{
$uploadDir = $this->sysContainer->getParamByParamCode('system.upload_dir');
$uploadFile = APP.$uploadDir['parameter_value'] . $filename;
}}}
=== Some useful functions: ===
1.Get all accessible courses:
{{{
$courseList = $this->sysContainer->getMyCourseList();
}}}
2.Get no. of members within a group:
{{{
$numMembers=$event['Event']['self_eval'] ?
$this->GroupsMembers->findCount('group_id='.$groupId) :
$this->GroupsMembers->findCount('group_id='.$groupId) - 1;
}}}
=== Caution: To upgrade CakePHP library for iPeer, please also look into the following files to change for iPeer customization: ===
1.replace all thtml -> tpl.php, since iPeer use php extension instead of thtml
2.change the controller.php in \cake\libs\controller
3.change html.php helper in \cake\libs\view\helpers
4.change dbo_source.php in \cake\libs\model\datasources
=== UBC CWL Integration:===
Instead of the Sys_Parameter setting from database, there are two files for CWL integration:
ipeer_v2\app\controller\loginout_controller.php
ipeer_v2\app\views\loginout\custom_ubc_cwl_login.tpl.php
Note: Remove all the following code when release the iPeer v2 to SourceForge.
From loginout_controller:
function loginByCWL() {
$this->autoRender = false;
/**
* the URL of the CWL login page
*/
$CWLLoginURL = 'https://www.auth.verf.cwl.ubc.ca/auth/login';
// CWL XML-RPC interface URLs: https://www.auth.verf.cwl.ubc.ca/auth/rpc (for verification)
// https://www.auth.cwl.ubc.ca/auth/rpc
$CWLRPCURL = "https://www.auth.verf.cwl.ubc.ca";
$CWLRPCPath = "/auth/rpc";
/**
* the name of the function being called through XML-RPC. this is
* prepended with 'session.' later
*/
//$CWLFunctionName = 'getLoginName';
$CWLFunctionName = 'getIdentities';
/**
* the application's ID/name and password as given by the CWL team
*/
$applicationID = 'cis_ipeer_vsa';
$applicationPassword = 'p33rl355';
$ticket = $_GET['ticket'];
if ($ticket != null) {
// now get some info about the session
// the parameters passed to the RPC interface. the ticket is the
// first argument for all functions
$params = array( new XML_RPC_Value($ticket, 'string') );
// note that the function name is prepended with the string 'session.'
$msg = new XML_RPC_Message("session.$CWLFunctionName", $params);
$cli = new XML_RPC_Client($CWLRPCPath, $CWLRPCURL);
$cli->setCredentials($applicationID, $applicationPassword);
//print_r ($cli);
//$cli->setDebug(1);
$resp = $cli->send($msg);
if (!$resp)
{
echo 'Communication error: ' . $cli->errstr;
exit;
}
// print the raw response data
//echo "Raw Response:
"; //print_r($resp); //echo ""; if (!$resp->faultCode()) { // an encoded response value $val = $resp->value(); // the actual data we requested $data = XML_RPC_decode($val); //echo "Response Data:
"; //print_r($data); //echo ""; if (!empty($data['student_number'])) { $studentNumber = $data['student_number']; //Check is this CWL login student able to use iPeer $this->params['data'] = $this->User->findUserByStudentNo(trim($studentNumber)); if ($this->params['data']['User']['id']) { //sets up the session vars $this->rdAuth->set($this->params['data']['User']); //sets up the system container for accessible functions $accessFunction = $this->SysFunction->getAllAccessibleFunction($this->params['data']['User']['role']); $accessController = $this->SysFunction->getTopAccessibleFunction($this->params['data']['User']['role']); $this->sysContainer->setAcesFunctionList($accessFunction); $this->sysContainer->setActionList($accessController); //setup my accessible courses $myCourses = $this->Course->findAccessibleCoursesList($this->params['data']['User']); $this->sysContainer->setMyCourseList($myCourses); //clear up the data parameters $this->params['data'] = array(); $redirect = '/home/index/'; $this->redirect($redirect); } else { $this->Session->write('CWLErr', 'NO_PERMISSION'); $redirect = 'loginout/login'; $this->redirect($redirect); } } else { $this->Session->write('CWLErr', 'INVALID_USER'); $redirect = 'loginout/login'; $this->redirect($redirect); } } else { // error echo 'Fault Code: ' . $resp->faultCode() . "