[Kenneth Ho]

Hi,

I have users in a database that have profile pictures. I believe I can retrieve the pictures from that database using their api. Is there any way of programmatically loading the pictures into the WordPress database? Sorry for the generality of the question. The comparison I would make is downloading the users from Active Directory into the Users database in WordPress. Perhaps there is an rest api to update the entries of the phone directory?

[Steven Zahm]

@ Kenneth

I am working on REST API support but it is far from being complete. Images can be added programmatically but there is no specific API to do so at the moment. You have to write the code to save the image into the connections-images folder and then update the data in the options column of the primary table. The next update of Connections will have a few methods in the cnImage class cnImage::download() this will retrieve an image from a URL as save it to an entry’s sub folder within the connections-images folder. cnImage::sideload() will allow you to move an image on the current web server to the correct entry folder. And, finally, cnImage::upload() which takes an $_FILE global to upload an image from a form submission.

Not sure it this helps, but I hope it does.

[Kenneth Ho]

Thanks Steven. It’s helpful, When is the next update of connections?

[Steven Zahm]

@ Kenneth

Maybe this Friday or at the very latest, next Friday. If you’re familiar with Github, I’ll be pushing these changes up later today so you could pull them down.

[Kenneth Ho]

@Steven

Could you tell me the exact format for the entries in the option column of the primary table?

[Steven Zahm]

@ Kenneth

Open the db in phpMyAdmin or similar tool. Copy the contents of the option column for an entry which has an image and unserialize it. That will show you the structure. Or use code:

$slug  = 'http://image.jpg';
$slug  = $entry->getSlug();
$photo = cnImage::download( $url, $slug );

if ( ! is_wp_error( $photo ) ) {

    $entry->setImageLinked( TRUE );
    $entry->setImageDisplay( TRUE );
    $entry->setImageNameOriginal( $photo['name'] );
    $entry->setOriginalImageMeta( $photo );

} else {

    $entry->setImageLinked( FALSE );
    $entry->setImageDisplay( FALSE );
}

Both cnImage::download() and cnImage::sideload() return the same response so they are interchangeable.

Hope that helps!

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