How To : Get a user's gigya profile using their gigya uid - Gigya Drupal 8/9

This is technical document to serve an implementation reference by Developer. We assume that you have the gigya PHP SDK and gigya raas drupal 8 module installed in your project.

We’ve had multiple issues with getting user’s profiles or showing users information on the site – This is because of the limitation of the Gigya Client Side - Web SDK . The user information have to be queried server side and this is how:

Step-by-step guide

• You need to instantiate the helper class:

  1 2	$helper = new Drupal\gigya\Helper\GigyaHelper(); $api = $helper->getGigyaApiHelper();

• You can then fetch the user Gigya Account by calling fetchGigyaAccount($uid) this takes the gigya user id as a parameter

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// The gigya UID is the drupal user uuid.
// Assuming the you have the user account interface loaded this can be fetched like this.

$uid = $account→uuid();
$gigya_user = $helper->getGigyaApiHelper()->fetchGigyaAccount($uid);

• FetchGigyaAccount throws an exception:

  1	Drupal\gigya\CmsStarterKit\sdk\GSApiException

  Remember to catch this in your code to avoid critical errors.