Small World Labs

Description

Create a new user on the SWL platform. This is part of the SWL SSO offering.

Required parameters for all SSO calls

• timestamp : The UNIX timestamp for the current time.
• hash : A MD5 hash containing, in this order, the SSO secret provided at configuration time, the user ID of the specified user, a MD5 hash of the password of the specified user, and the UNIX timestamp.

Additional required parameters for this call

• email_address : the email address for the user (must be unique)
• first_name : the first name of the user (required only if using first/last name)
• last_name : the last name of the user (required only if using first/last name)
• username : the username of the user (required only if using usernames)
• password : the password for the user

Optional parameters

• user_id : user ID of the specified user (integer)
• tier : user type identifier (integer)
• userinfo : An XML blob of additional user fields. The XML must contain the root node "fields" and must contain 1 or more "field" elements. Each element must have an attribute "field_id" which matches the given field_id found in the users.getProfileBlock call, and each field must contain one child CDATA element specifying the value for that field. Example:
  

  <?xml version="1.0"?>
  <fields>
     <field field_id="1">
         <![CDATA[value1]]>
     </field>
     <field field_id="2">
         <![CDATA[value2]]>
     </field>
  </fields>

• sendmessage : if set to "y", send the newly created user a welcome message

Example response

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<response status="ok" time="Mon, 25 May 2009 20:20:49 -0500" p="0.068033933639526">
   <createUser count="1"><sso_createUser/></createUser>
</response>

Any failure is returned with the status of "failure" as described in Handling the response.