[ic] updating data without a form?

[interchange-users@icdevgroup.org (Kevin Walsh)]

> Yes, the user is logged in.
> 
> I tried just "[tag flag write]userdb[/tag][userdb function=save]", but I'm a
> bit surprised why you wanted me to try this.  The whole point of the
> exercise was to change the value of the field "password" to "secret".
> 
> [tag flag write]userdb[/tag][userdb function=save] produced one '1' on the
> page, and generated no errors.  Of course it didn't actually save any
> values.
> 
> To address Rene's question, I am looking at mySql data through mySql itself.
> 
To change the logged-in user's password from "whatever" to "secret"
you can do the following:

    [userdb function="change_pass"
             oldpass="whatever"
            password="secret"
              verify="secret"
    ]

Of course, you'll need to know that the current password is "whatever"
before you can do this.  Perhaps you should not be doing it this way;
Create a form and get the user to enter their current and new password.
I can't think of a situation where you'd need to do this without using
a form.

By the way, the 1 on the page is the success code, you can hide it with:

    [tmp result][userdb ...][/tmp]

Or you can us it with:

    [if type="explicit" compare="[userdb ...]"]
        Success
    [else]
        Failure
    [/else]
    [/if]

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