使用Web服务API函数挂起Moodle用户

Question

I am trying to suspend a user in Moodle by using Moodle's Web service API functions in PHP. I can change user fields like firstname, but I am not capable to suspend the user.

It always returns "null".

Here is my code:

<?php
$serverurl = "http://localhost/web/moodle/webservice/rest/server.php?wstoken=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx&wsfunction=core_user_update_users&moodlewsrestformat=json";
$params = "users[0][id]=4&users[0][preferences][0][type]=suspended&users[0][preferences][0][value]=true";
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $serverurl);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST,1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $params);
$response = curl_exec($ch);

print_r($response);

curl_close($ch);
?>

Answer 1

Suspending a user was added to the Web Services in MDL-31465 which made it into version 3.2. If you're on an older version and don't want to upgrade, you can use the core_user_update_users function and set auth to nologin.

The API returning null does not indicate an error - if something goes wrong, you'll get a more verbose error.