Possible to know UserID (pretemplate) in php to load content. [] - new question

[Vaupell]

Making a costum page, and i got myself stuck..

Got a table with userinformation store in various colums,
and i want it to load so when a use enters that page "from anywhere"
if he is logged in, it shows his stats/content

and for that i would like to do

SELECT * FROM table WHERE userID

but since i dont have a template "first" im not sure how i can check userID
in php, cause i would be missing bbinfo.

proberly crappy explained..

let me know if i need to clear it up a bit..


EDIT : basicly i want this function in PHP
{vb:raw bbuserinfo.userid}

[James Birkett]

erm, sorry to state the obvious but:
$bbuserinfo['userid']

I'm not sure if i'm understanding you, but the above is the PHP equivalent to the template variable you posted.

[Vaupell]

I thought so aswell, just cant get it working..

Got a user with the UserID as 1 in the table tableAlpha
The userID's in tableAlpha "Match" userids from vbulletin>user table.


$currentuser=$bbuserinfo['userid'];

// ??? collect current stats
$userstat=$db->query_first("SELECT * FROM " . TABLE_PREFIX . "tableAlpha WHERE UserID='".$currentuser."'");

Shows nothing, howewer if i replace the var currentuser with

$currentuser='1';

then it loads the user fine, so im thinking the $bbuserinfo['userid']; does not return
the correct value

I also tryed entering the bbuserinfo direct into the query with no luck..

[ForumsMods]

Use:
$currentuser = $vbulletin->userinfo['userid'];

[Vaupell]

Thank you so much vBs !!!

3x cheers for you. :D

[Vaupell]

Use:
$currentuser = $vbulletin->userinfo['userid'];

next step, what about usergroup ? :D

userinfo['usergroup'] does nada, zip,, zero :D

[Lynne]

If you look at the user table in the database, you'll see the field is usergroupid, not just usergroup. And, as the field implies, it is the id not the name of the group.

[Vaupell]

If you look at the user table in the database, you'll see the field is usergroupid, not just usergroup. And, as the field implies, it is the id not the name of the group.

yeah figured that,, tryed it..
this is what im trying to do

getting the user set groups from settings which is something like 2,5,6,7


$usergroups = htmlspecialchars_uni($vbulletin->options['galusergrp']);
$usergroup = preg_split('/[\s,]+/', $usergroups );

$currentuser = $vbulletin->userinfo[usergroupid];

if ($currentuser = $usergroup)
{
}


but its always true.

[Lynne]

preg_split returns an array, I believe. So, how can you do a comparison of $currentuser to an array? You would need to do something like:
if (in_array($currentuser, array($usergroup)))

I think.... I hate playing with arrays. :)

[Vaupell]

yes, usually i would use usergroup control via a admincp.php and a database query,

was just trying something else for a change, to completely remove ekstra upload files,
so it would all just be run on plugins and templates. ;)

then i was looking at bitfield options, but i hate those
haveing to enter each usergroup to enable a product, i prefer just
writeing acces to 2,4,5,6, etc :p

think im gonna drop the settings, and go old school and do a
prober php file and a database table. :D