Create new user from API/other site - Build2024-03-29T12:03:46Zhttp://build.ning.com/forum/topics/create-new-user-from-api-other-site?commentId=6308082%3AComment%3A19208&xg_source=activity&feed=yes&xn_auth=noNo offence taken - I can cert…tag:build.ning.com,2013-02-14:6308082:Comment:191252013-02-14T00:39:21.687ZPhillip Pearsonhttp://build.ning.com/profile/PhillipPearson
<p>No offence taken - I can certainly see it being a useful feature. All the best for your site in its new home!</p>
<p>No offence taken - I can certainly see it being a useful feature. All the best for your site in its new home!</p> It's not just about importing…tag:build.ning.com,2013-02-13:6308082:Comment:192112013-02-13T17:50:45.150ZRon Fritzemeierhttp://build.ning.com/profile/RonFritzemeier
<p>It's not just about importing members, its having the ability to create a seamless experience between external content and Ning. If we had our own API key/tokens we could control SPAM just as well as Ning does(nt). If I have a user creating an account on my external content (after validating with captcha or email or whatever) and I automatically created him an account - how is that any different than what a spammer can already do with Ning?</p>
<p>Ning is great if you are happy with what it…</p>
<p>It's not just about importing members, its having the ability to create a seamless experience between external content and Ning. If we had our own API key/tokens we could control SPAM just as well as Ning does(nt). If I have a user creating an account on my external content (after validating with captcha or email or whatever) and I automatically created him an account - how is that any different than what a spammer can already do with Ning?</p>
<p>Ning is great if you are happy with what it provides out of the box, but if you are trying to integrate it into a larger platform, it is impossible at this time. To provide any custom applications/content that rely on member authentication is impossible at worst, hacky and riddled with security holes at best. </p>
<p>I ended up deciding to move to another platform that I can actually integrate my system with, but I'm not knocking Ning - for what its intended to do, its a great platform. </p> Yeah, we don't have any autom…tag:build.ning.com,2013-02-13:6308082:Comment:192082013-02-13T17:40:33.370ZPhillip Pearsonhttp://build.ning.com/profile/PhillipPearson
<p>Yeah, we don't have any automated way to sign people up. We may do this in future, but I can't say whether it will be generally accessible or not. Member import is definitely a popular feature request, but it's more complicated than it sounds due to spam, etc :)</p>
<p>Yeah, we don't have any automated way to sign people up. We may do this in future, but I can't say whether it will be generally accessible or not. Member import is definitely a popular feature request, but it's more complicated than it sounds due to spam, etc :)</p> You can change the captcha in…tag:build.ning.com,2012-10-28:6308082:Comment:180772012-10-28T22:30:46.171ZRon Fritzemeierhttp://build.ning.com/profile/RonFritzemeier
<p>You can change the captcha in your signup form to a specified question and hard code the answer into your form. Not an ideal situation IMO, but without API support what can you do?</p>
<p>You can change the captcha in your signup form to a specified question and hard code the answer into your form. Not an ideal situation IMO, but without API support what can you do?</p> That was pretty much the conc…tag:build.ning.com,2012-10-28:6308082:Comment:179592012-10-28T22:25:44.901ZEricahttp://build.ning.com/profile/Erica
<p>That was pretty much the conclusion I came to, yes. The tricky part about creating a local form then submitting the results to Ning is that the Ning signup form has a Captcha on it, which pretty much makes it impossible to repost data from a form on another site.</p>
<p>That was pretty much the conclusion I came to, yes. The tricky part about creating a local form then submitting the results to Ning is that the Ning signup form has a Captcha on it, which pretty much makes it impossible to repost data from a form on another site.</p> Yeah, their API is designed t…tag:build.ning.com,2012-10-28:6308082:Comment:182622012-10-28T17:11:41.062ZRon Fritzemeierhttp://build.ning.com/profile/RonFritzemeier
<p>Yeah, their API is designed to add delete and update photos (<a href="http://developer.ning.com/docs/ningapi/1.0/index.html#api-examples" target="_blank">see examples</a>).</p>
<p>I'm thinking the only way to do all of these things externally (SSO, or external signup) would be to create your own login/signup form on your external site, and then take what you need and manually POST the rest to ning.</p>
<p>That's what I'm going to end up doing for my SSO solution since the Ning API does not…</p>
<p>Yeah, their API is designed to add delete and update photos (<a href="http://developer.ning.com/docs/ningapi/1.0/index.html#api-examples" target="_blank">see examples</a>).</p>
<p>I'm thinking the only way to do all of these things externally (SSO, or external signup) would be to create your own login/signup form on your external site, and then take what you need and manually POST the rest to ning.</p>
<p>That's what I'm going to end up doing for my SSO solution since the Ning API does not have a way to generate a session id for a user when authenticated via API. I will lose the ability for members to sign on via google/facebook/twitter etc, but IIRC those users can't even be authenticated via the API anyway which means I don't want them using it anyway. </p>
<p>The signup process is trickier than just SSO, maybe you could create a helper page on your ning site and frame the signup page inside that, so you can post through both pages? You'd have to work out your SOP workaround but there's a <a href="http://stackoverflow.com/a/3076648/1483670" target="_blank">couple ways</a> that can be done. <strong>Obviously you would want to include the acceptance to the Ning TOS in your version of the signup form.</strong></p> I posted a similar question o…tag:build.ning.com,2012-10-28:6308082:Comment:179562012-10-28T16:47:57.462ZFranco Mercallihttp://build.ning.com/profile/FrancoMercalli
<p>I posted a similar question on the Creators forum several months ago and got a negative answer from Eric Suesz. See here: <a href="http://creators.ning.com/forum/topics/automatic-registration-of" target="_blank">http://creators.ning.com/forum/topics/automatic-registration-of</a></p>
<p>I posted a similar question on the Creators forum several months ago and got a negative answer from Eric Suesz. See here: <a href="http://creators.ning.com/forum/topics/automatic-registration-of" target="_blank">http://creators.ning.com/forum/topics/automatic-registration-of</a></p> As far as I know you cannot c…tag:build.ning.com,2012-10-25:6308082:Comment:181362012-10-25T23:31:56.510ZRon Fritzemeierhttp://build.ning.com/profile/RonFritzemeier
<p>As far as I know you cannot create a user via the API. I've been looking through a lot of posts trying to figure out if authenticating a user with OAuth logs them into ning, and I have seen it mentioned several times that you cannot create a user via the API.</p>
<p>As far as I know you cannot create a user via the API. I've been looking through a lot of posts trying to figure out if authenticating a user with OAuth logs them into ning, and I have seen it mentioned several times that you cannot create a user via the API.</p> Hi everyone,
Just checking in…tag:build.ning.com,2012-09-27:6308082:Comment:182192012-09-27T10:19:08.923ZEricahttp://build.ning.com/profile/Erica
<p>Hi everyone,</p>
<p>Just checking in... Is the lack of replies because no one knows the answer, or is this forum inactive? Perhaps there's somewhere else I could ask these sorts of questions?</p>
<p>Kind regards,</p>
<p>Erica</p>
<p>Hi everyone,</p>
<p>Just checking in... Is the lack of replies because no one knows the answer, or is this forum inactive? Perhaps there's somewhere else I could ask these sorts of questions?</p>
<p>Kind regards,</p>
<p>Erica</p>