Usergroup Question

ghinton · August 23rd, 2006, 02:50 AM

Chuck and Michael have helped me with this in the past on an older version of Photopost and it worked great, but now having done a clean install of PhotoPost and vBulletin and integrating them, I am running into problems again, so maybe they or someone else can help me out.

I am trying to use the following code

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Content visible to verified customers only.

Basically meaning, if you are not a part of that group, then you will get sent to the signup page.
I did go into photopost.php and change

Code:

Content visible to verified customers only.

and made it

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Content visible to verified customers only.

However, what ever number I substitute, even if it is the right usergroup number, it will still react the same with any group. Using the example above, usergroup 6 should not get the message; however, all group numbers go to the error message. It is as if it is not even understanding my code. Can you please point me to what I need to change to make this work again. The way I had it working before was with just Photopost. It is now integrated with vBulleting, s I believe this is part of the problem, and possibly something other than $usergroup needs to be used. Thanks!

Chuck S · August 23rd, 2006, 09:47 AM

well your integrating with vbulletin right so things are totally different for one we never define the usergroup in vbulletin and example being they can be a member of many usergroups. something like this may work but your group is not 6 anymore since 6 in vb is admin. I am going to post for example your subscribe is group 9

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Content visible to verified customers only.

ghinton · August 23rd, 2006, 12:14 PM

Chuck... this seems to be doing the same as with the others. I can't figure out why it is affecting ALL usergroups. I placed the code you provided in showphoto.php by replacing

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Content visible to verified customers only.

as I did in the past. I left it as just usergroup 6 for testing, which should in essence give all groups except the admin the message, but I shows it for everyone, including usergroup 6. If I change the != to == (which should show the message for just usergroup 6) it does not display the message for any usergroup. Is there something I need to define in another script?

Chuck S · August 23rd, 2006, 01:10 PM

You cant remove the code above.

This thing I posted is for logged in users and should work fine so I dont see any issues with that. The get_userinfo line gets the user info and defines $tgroup

ghinton · August 23rd, 2006, 01:17 PM

So basically just add this below that? The code you gave me does go in the showphoto.php file correct? If not where do I place it?

Chuck S · August 23rd, 2006, 01:34 PM

That code could theoretically go in any file under the authenticate(); line in any photopost script

ghinton · August 23rd, 2006, 01:49 PM

OK... I am banging my head now... it is still doing the same.

Is it possible to have them integrated, but not at the same time. For example sharing the same database, but under the Do you want to enable the vB3 Integration which uses your vB3 headers, footers and styles? setting, make this NO. Would I be able to do it the old way then using the showphoto.php usergroup code and defining it in photopost.php?

Chuck S · August 23rd, 2006, 02:02 PM

There is no reason whether the vb3 enhanced integration on or not whether something like this would not work

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Content visible to verified customers only.

If your integrated with vb3 this should check the user's usergroup and if the group does not match what is noted then forward them to another page.

ghinton · September 23rd, 2006, 08:49 AM

I have just done a clean installation of both PhotoPost and vBulletin, have them fully integrated and have tried this code again, but it is still doing the same thing. All usergroups, no matter what number will redirect to the sign up page. This is how I placed the code in the showphoto.php file:

Code:

Content visible to verified customers only.

Is there something else I have to define in another place in order to get this to work? I seems that it is totally ignoring what ever group number I enter.