Using the user preferences system ?

Thursday 17 June 2010 5:29:12 am

Hello,

How can we use the "/user/preferences/set/" system ?

Can we pass arrays with this system ? What are the related php functions in ezpublish api to retrieve a user preferences ?

Thank !

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Friday 18 June 2010 1:58:35 am

The value can not be an array, it must be a string, but you can of course use a string to represent an array as long as it is legal to put into an url.

Alternatively it also supports values by post, if you want to post value as json or some other format. But I suspect that was added in 4.3 together with 'set_and_exit' which is to be able to use it in ajax calls without regenerating a full page in the background.

Note: value & name has a limit of 100 chars each, I suspect this is because preferences are cached to session, and thus can't be of unlimited size.

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