Accessing Alma User API Data to Populate a Webform to Create a New ILLiad User Account
martes, el 5 de mayo de 2020 a las 09:10–09:30 PDT
Avalon
Presentation Topics
General development, coding, & APIs
Presentation Topic Description
After many years of a locally-created Active Server Pages (ASP) solution to authenticate and create new ILLiad users from our Alma user database, we needed to upgrade our server and ILLiad version and therefore needed to create new code to pull Alma user data and authenticate users. This presentation will cover the format of the Alma user data, how to work with it through the Alma User API and PHP, how we authenticated users through EZProxy, how we parsed the user data to fill a new user registration form for ILLiad, and how we added checks against the current Alma user account status before creating a new ILLiad account.