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Anthony W Stefani

• May 04, 2016 19:02

Is there an api to download the current picture of a user, apply a change to the picture and re-upload it?

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  Brian Stengaard

  • May 06, 2016 11:51

  No there isn't a single API that would help you with this, but with a bit hacking it should be doable. Note that this needs to be done as the user since only a user can update their own profile.

  Basically you need to

  1. Get the users current profile `GET /contact/user/{user_id}` (let's call the result `p`)
  2. Get the users avatar from `p.image.link` (should be a URL)
  3. Alter the image
  4. As the user: Upload the image - get the ID - links call it image_id
  5. As the user: `POST` to `/contact/{p.profile_id}` the value `{"avatar" : <image_id>}`.

  Cheers,

  Brian

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  Akbar Badhusha

  • September 20, 2016 09:36

  {
  "error_parameters": {},
  "error_detail": null,
  "error_propagate": false,
  "request": {
  "url": "http://api.podio.com/contact/{[profileId]}",
  "query_string": "",
  "method": "POST"
  },
  "error_description": "No matching operation could be found. The path '/contact/{[profileId]}' was not found..",
  "error": "not_found"
  }

   

  why it is happening?

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  Akbar Badhusha

  • September 20, 2016 10:32
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  Andrew Fields

  • October 11, 2016 16:47
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  I am trying to write a PHP app to update External User avatar images. It seems external users don't always set their avatar images and I would like to do that FOR them by setting their avatar image to something more unique (like a box with the first letter of their first & last names and a color like Google does).

  This means this PHP app would have to have the ability to UPDATE the user Profile record. It sounds like that is *only* possible when the user does this, so can you recommend a way to implement this? Perhaps I could have a webpage that is called while the user is logged in that would do this? Any suggestions? Perhaps send a link to the user that requests Auth that the user can "approve" that then allows the app to update their Avatar image?

  Thanks in advance for any input.

   

  UPDATE: I figured it out. Here is the code that works:

  
  $puup = PodioUser::update_profile(array(
  "avatar" => $file_id,
  ));

   

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