User-data ist the data that each user can edit in the administration, by accessing the own profile and clicking the “Userdata” tab.

Please note, that Bigace makes a difference between user-data and user-settings. The settings are account related information like language and email adress, where user-data is not directly important for Bigace core system. User-data is meant for application developer, who want to read and write user related information.

If you try to access the user-attributes in your code, you have to know, that Bigace does not guarantee to store empty values. If a user leaves a form-field empty, it might or might-not be saved. Accessing it directly here without a proper check could lead to an error, therefor check it for example like that:

if(!empty($attributes['phone'])) { echo 'Here it is!'; }

Reading all user-attributes:

// get the user service
$principalService = ServiceFactory::get()->getPrincipalService();
// fetch the super-user 
$user = $principalService->lookupByID(1);
// fetch all user-attributes
$attributes = $principalService->getAttributes($user);
// and display all information
echo '<h1>User attributes for: '.$user->getName().' [ID '.$user->getId().']</h1>';
foreach($attributes as $key => $value) {
    echo '<b>'.$key.'</b>: '.$value.'<br/>';
}

Reading user-settings:

// get the user service
$principalService = ServiceFactory::get()->getPrincipalService();
// fetch the super-user 
$user = $principalService->lookupByID(1);
// display all user-settings
echo '<h1>User settings for: '.$user->getName().'</h1>';
echo '<b>ID:</b> ' . $user->getID
echo '<b>Name:</b> ' . $user->getName();
echo '<b>Language:</b> ' . $user->getLanguageId();
echo '<b>Email:</b> ' . $user->getEmail();
echo '<b>Active:</b> ' . ($user->isActive() ? 'YES' : 'NO');

• Configurable User-attributes

TODO add api links