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Contact cards of employees

Contact cards of employees

Extension module for displaying contact data

Sandra Kahl
Portrait: Antje Schreiber
Antje Schreiber
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Function and features of the module

  • Consistent presentation of contact data of employees of the TU Chemnitz in the corporate design (responsive and accessible)
  • Contact data are read from centrally maintained LDAP directory, all attributes can also be overwritten

Basic structure

$this->vCard(string $userid [, array $values [, array $style]]);

Possible parameters

  • $userid | PHP string
    • fetch data of the associated persons from LDAP
    • can also be empty (''), then only the data from $values will be displayed
  • $values | PHP array [optional]
    • Array with values overwriting or complementing the LDAP values
    • Possible entries (selection):
      'name', 'title' (academic title), 'description' (job description etc., see example 2),
      'mail', 'tel', 'room', 'photo', and more (HTML possivle, see example 4)
  • $style | PHP array [optional]
    • Array of values that affect the style of the contact card
    • Possible entries:
      'border' (0 = no line), 'id' (for anchor link e. g.), 'titleprefix' (0 = title after name),
      'photoindent' (0 = no indentation, see example 3)
Documentation: All details about the extension module
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Examples

$this->vCard('otto');
Dr. Otto Normalverbraucher

$this->vCard('otto', array('description' => 'Data specialist in the URZ team'));
Dr. Otto Normalverbraucher
Data specialist in the URZ team 

$this->vCard('otto', array('description' => 'Data specialist in the URZ team'), array('photoindent' => 0));
Dr. Otto Normalverbraucher
Data specialist in the URZ team 

$this->vCard('otto',
    array('title' => 'M.Sc.',
          'description' => 'Data specialist in the URZ team',
          'Verantwortlich für' => '<ul><li>Identification of interesting data</li><li>...</li></ul>',
          'photo' => 'otto.jpg'),
    array('photoindent' => 0, 'titleprefix' => 0));
Portrait: Otto Normalverbraucher, M.Sc.
Otto Normalverbraucher, M.Sc.
Data specialist in the URZ team
  • Phone:
    +49 371 531-35555
  • Email:
  • Verantwortlich für:
    • Identification of interesting data patterns
    • Analysis and statistics
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