Update user email address via API

[nschutz]

According the update user API , we should be able to update a user's default email address. the same PUT request below works in Postman, but not in PHP/cURL. Very strange. I tried both checking the box in the root account setting Users can delete their institution-assigned email address and not checking the box. Any insight appreciated!

    $updateEmailURL = "https://" . $domain . "/api/v1/users/". $uid . "?user[email]=" . urlencode($userEmail);
    curl_setopt_array($curl, array(
      CURLOPT_URL => $updateEmailURL,
      CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
      CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
      CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
      CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
      CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
      CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "PUT",
      CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => array(
        $header,
        "cache-control: no-cache"
      ),
    ));

[ColinMurtaugh]

Hi @nschutz ,

What's the error that you're getting when you try to run the PHP code? If the request works in Postman (presumably with the same token), then the settings/permissions on the Canvas side seem fine and there's likely a problem with the PHP code.

--Colin

[nschutz]

Hi @ColinMurtaugh ,

Yes, same token. No error, RC is 200. The only difference I can tell between PHP and Postman is that I have to encode email address in PHP.

[nschutz]

I looked into the response object, it does say "invalid url". So I assume the urlencode function is not the solution? I also tried curl_escape and didn't work either. The problem is there is an @ symbol in the url which causes the error.

[ColinMurtaugh]

Unfortunately I don't have much experience with PHP -- hopefully some other more knowledgeable person can help! 🙂 

--Colin