From: Chris Sharp <csharp@georgialibraries.org>
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2012 13:03:52 +0000 (-0500)
Subject: adding little utility to ease tracking down users by ID
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adding little utility to ease tracking down users by ID
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+#!/usr/bin/perl -w
+#
+# Copyright (C)2010-2012 Georgia Public Library Service
+# Chris Sharp <csharp@georgialibraries.org>
+#
+=pod
+
+A utility to easily discover a patron's name and active card number
+from the command line.  It requires the following:
+1) a direct connection to the database you're trying to query
+2) Perl DBI and DBD::Pg packages installed (libdbi-perl and 
+   libdbd-pg-perl packages on Debian/Ubuntu)
+
+The main use case for this is to provide a non-technical end user
+(e.g., a library administrator or helpdesk manager) with a non-SQL 
+way to get the active card barcode and full name of a user from an 
+Evergreen user ID gathered from displayed columns in the staff client
+for a circulation or hold object.
+
+Usage:
+
+  perl who_is.pl
+
+=cut
+use strict;
+use DBI;
+
+my $uID;
+my $query;
+my $db_name = "evergreen";
+my $db_host = "myhost";
+my $db_user = "evergreen";
+my $db_pass = "mypassword";
+
+
+print "Please enter the user ID: ";
+chomp($uID = <STDIN>);
+
+$query = <<END;
+SELECT cd.barcode, u.first_given_name, u.second_given_name, u.family_name
+	FROM actor.usr u
+	JOIN actor.card cd on (cd.usr = u.id and cd.active)
+	WHERE u.id = $uID;
+END
+#print $query; 
+
+# connect
+my $dbh = DBI->connect("DBI:Pg:dbname=$db_name;host=$db_host", "$db_user", "$db_pass", {'RaiseError' => 1});
+
+
+# execute SELECT query
+my $sth = $dbh->prepare("$query");
+$sth->execute();
+my ($cdBarcode, $first_name, $middle_name, $last_name);
+
+# iterate through resultset
+# print values
+my $ref = $sth->bind_columns(\($cdBarcode, $first_name, $middle_name, $last_name));
+while ($sth->fetch) {
+    print "User $uID has barcode $cdBarcode and is named $first_name $middle_name $last_name.\n";
+}
+
+# clean up
+$dbh->disconnect();
+