Associate a photo with a user

ghinton · July 9th, 2007, 10:28 AM

How can I associate a photo with a particular user? For example, I have my site set up to where only members of certain user groups can view full sized photos and comment on them, however all members may submit photos. What I would like to do is set it so that the user who submitted the photo can view their photos and the comments left for them, but not be able to view the photos they did not post, unless they have joined that particular group.

For example:

Joe is a member of Group 1. Group 1 can view all full sized photos and leave comments.

Bob is a member of Group 2. Group 2 can only submit photos, but cannot view the full sized photos or leave comments.

Bob submits a photo and Joe comments on it. Under the current group set up, Bob is unable to see the comment left by Joe.

How can I set in showphoto.php so that Bob's userid from the logon can be be referenced to the userid from the photo so that access can be allowed to view even though it is not a part of the group.

Something similar to this

Code:

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Chuck S · July 9th, 2007, 12:36 PM

The variable your looking for is $iuserid and I cant tell you how to code anything cause it all depends how you setup and coded your files to grab a user's usergroup. Thus only you know the answer to your question so you define your if clause how you want based on how you have priorly hacked the code.

$User['userid'] != $iuserid

That would mean if the user was not the poster they could not see it and if they are the poster they could see it

So your clause in effect would be to say if they are not the poster and do not belong to usergroup x then they have no permission so you take it from there. Now before to put any check also in the if clause for admins or mods

ghinton · July 9th, 2007, 01:05 PM

Thanks Chuck! I play around with the code and see if I can get that to work.

Chuck S · July 9th, 2007, 02:05 PM

You follow what I am saying right? Your if clause is gonna have to basically say this

IF NOT ADMIN IF NOT MOD IF USERID DOES NOT EQUAL PHOTO USERID IF NOT USERGROUP X then NO PERMISSION