fetchObject(..); please help!

Wednesday 28 September 2005 2:13:28 am

Hey all,
I have the following situation:

a contentobject myUser has normal UserClass attributes, but it has an aditional 'old_id' as attribute. I'd like to know how to make a function:

function getUser($oldId){
     //implementation goes here
     return $newID
}

I think i need to use eZPersistentObject::fetchObject, although I'm not sure about this, can someone please help me?
Thanks a lot!
Clemens

Wednesday 28 September 2005 7:46:55 am

Or should I use 'remote_id'?

What are the possibilities of this variable? How to use it, because I'm trying to import a lot of users /other data from my old site into ezPublish!

Thanks,
Clemens

Saturday 01 October 2005 4:02:48 am

You've got to use the remote_id of a contentobject!

...
    $contentObject->setAttribute( 'remote_id', $oldid);    
	$contentObject->store();
...

//$remote_id = old user_id
function getNewUserID($remote_id){	
    $myTmpObject=eZPersistentObject::fetchObject( eZContentObject::definition(), null,
                                                        array( 'remote_id' => $remote_id) );
	if(is_object($myTmpObject))
    	return $myTmpObject->attribute('id');
    else 
    	return null;
}