Edit Mikrotik User Profile With PHP API

Question

I'm building a WiFi authentication tool with user profile edit and guest credentials, etc.

I can write users to the mikrotik and remove users without an issue, but I can't find any documentation on editing the user profile. I suppose I could just remove it and add a new record, but that is just inefficient and may create issues with user keys down the line.

I'm using class.routeros_api.php and I'm on version 6.30

To add a user is done like so...

$response = $api->comm("/tool/user-manager/user/add",array(
    "customer"          => "admin",
    "username"          => "guest_user",
    "location"          => "Guest",
    "first-name"        => "Guest",
    "last-name"         => "1",
    "password"          => "somepw",
    "shared-users"      => "1",
    "copy-from"         => "00:00:00:00:00:00"
));

Deleting a user...

$response = $api->comm("/tool/user-manager/user/remove",array(
    ".id"               => "*15"
));

so I figured editing a user would be something like...

$response = $api->comm("/tool/user-manager/user/edit",array(
    ".id"               => "*15",
    "username"          => "someotheruser",
    "password"          => "someotherpass"
));

However, the error I'm receiving is...

<<< [28] /tool/user-manager/user/edit 
<<< [8] =.id=*14 
<<< [14] =username=someotheruser
<<< [19] =password=someotherpass

>>> [5/5] bytes read. 
>>> [5, 35]!trap 
>>> [26/26] bytes read. 
>>> [26, 8]=message=unknown parameter 
>>> [5/5] bytes read. 
>>> [5, 1]!done

If someone has done this before and can assist with the appropriate syntax for the "/tool/user-manager/user/edit" command, it would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

So after some research into how this thing actually works, it appears I was just using the wrong command.

The correct way to edit a user on the mikrotik is to do the following...

$api->comm("/tool/user-manager/user/set",array(
    ".id"               => "*14",
    "username"          => "somenewuser"
    "password"          => "somenewpassword",
));

In fact, "set" is the way you post edits for every feature. "edit" is for multi-line editing.

Special thanks to drew010 for the WinBox idea and the link to the commands wiki.