Write to $vbulletin->userinfo

[Kel0G]

Hey,

I can use $vbulletin->userinfo in a PHP script to read/return a specific value of a field. But what's the command for writing to a specific field?

[Zachery]

Writing to it how?

[vBNinja]

just add a column to the user database table
then you can access that column with the $vbulletin->userinfo array

[Kel0G]

I dont want to access/read from it. I want to write to it through the PHP script and I need to know which vB command should be used for that.

Example (reading):
if (is_member_of($vbulletin->userinfo, 6))

checks if the user is in user group ID of 6. Let's say I want to set the ID for this user instead of reading it, how can this be done?

[Zachery]

You want to update the users usergroupid? in the database, or on the page load?

[Kel0G]

The groupID was just an example. I want to edit an entry in the user database in a PHP script I'm calling outside of the forum itself (through a program).

[Lynne]

If you want to edit and entry *in the database*, then you need to do a query like this (example to set userid to 10 for a user who's username is JoeBlow:
$db->query_write("
UPDATE TABLE " . TABLE_PREFIX . "user
SET userid=10
WHERE username='JoeBlow'
");


http://www.vbulletin.com/docs/html/codestandards_sql_query

(I would NOT change the userids via a query. If you accidentally set the userid to the same as another user, you can really mess things up!)

[Kel0G]

Of course, the userID was just an example. I've added a custom column for all users which I want edit so the original vB entries stay untouched.

//edit: I've tried your script and it gives me this error:
Fatal error: Call to a member function query_write() on a non-object in ...

//edit2: Changed $db to $vBulletin->db and now when I call the script it opens a "
Quick Setup
Your current site " site of the forum instead of executing the script. Somehow the query does not work.

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Okay got it. The problem was that the command "ALTER TABLE" is wrong.

[Lynne]

Whoops! UPDATE for updating the table. ALTER for changing the table itself.