Creating custom template user using API

[Ivan Gretsky]

I am using this wonderfull feature to create users with different templates and under different parents. Now I need to do it via API. Looking at the source code it seems like I can easilly create a user with alternative template. But is there a way to specify parent page?

Certainly I can get still just create the users as pages like here, but that does not read as well and does not allow me to use addRole().

[Ivan Gretsky]

...ok just do it as with a regular Page

$u = new User();
$u->template = "custom-user-template";
$u->parent = "custom-user-parent";
$u->save();

Sometimes you need to spoil your forum karma to get your head working as it should)

[LostKobrakai]

Sometimes you need to spoil your forum karma to get your head working as it should)

So true!

[Martijn Geerts]

Sometimes you need to spoil your forum karma to get your head working as it should)

My opinion: "it doesn't spoil your carma. You just show you're not afraid to be 'ignorant' in the open. That is a state where you show the others: 'I want to learn' and that is quite a strong one.

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The reason it just works is just that User is extending Page, so User is a page with a few extra methods and stuff.

[Ivan Gretsky]

The reason it just works is just that User is extending Page, so User is a page with a few extra methods and stuff.

Yep, that's clear to me now. Thanks to PW I know some OOP. But I was confused by User constructor accepting template as parameter, but not accepting parent.

[Martijn Geerts]

Same here before PW had not a real understanding of OOP. It was more like: If I do this, i might expect this. Let's trial and error that one out.

[elabx]

Yep, that's clear to me now. Thanks to PW I know some OOP. But I was confused by User constructor accepting template as parameter, but not accepting parent.

I didn't even know PHP could actually look like that. First time I was like, "what the heck with all those arrows?".