Restrict style to Usergroup
 

Description
This hack allows you to restrict the usage of styles to certain usergroups.

Hack Details
Files to Edit = 4
Queries to Run = 1
Difficulty = Medium

History
0.1 Initial Version
0.2 Fixed a typo in the query, thanks to nexialys
0.3 Fixed a Bug which caused Problems with Primary Usergroups

Developed and tested with 3.0.7, but should work with all 3.0.x-Versions.

This would go good in conjuction with subscription services.

That's possible.
Create an additional usergroup, restrict usage of your premium styles for this usergroup and then create a subscription which adds the user to this usergroup.

I'm looking for soomething like this where if I have multiple sytles, but only want me to see them (because I'm working on them) only I see the chooser box.

Anything like that around?

Ok so how many admins do you have? If the answer is one then Kirby is your hero.

KirbyDE, the query is having an error... VACHAR instead of VARCHAR.. ;)

great hack !

I hate typos ;)
Thanks, fixed.

FINALLY
thanks kirb.

thanks a lot.

Would be nice to know if it does what it is meant do do - lol.

Installed and working great :D

I LOVE YOU KIRBY!
Okay, maybe not love but thanks!

Does that mean this will do what I need since it's only me?

If you are the only user in Usergroup Administrators - yes.

Great hack!

Tnx!

Then I love Kirby too!

In a nice hetero male bonding sort of way. :nervous:

I don't want to sound ungraceful, but i'd prefer a woman to love me ;)

Well, at least I qualified it. That way it didn't sound dirty.

Aww man I just thought about how I am going to take your nice hack and turn it dirty....

NAKED GIRLS SKIN!

YES!

ROFLMFAO!!!!!

Dude im not joking either... Already working on it.... Oh the gif new post icons is sweet!

When it's ready for prime time let me know. Love to have a look.

Well its done for right now.... Great for a few laughs.

Lets just say that they are motivated to post a long post......

I love this hack. It's exactly what I was looking for. Thanks for sharing your work.

What I did on my board was to add a style to subscribers that doesn't include ad's now. Hopefully this will encourage a little more donations.

thanks a lot

when i select a user group for the style to be used on, the style is not showing up anymore. any ideas?

yea as soon as i select a usergroup to be able to select the style, it just removes itself from the drop down.

using vb 3.0.0

I am not sure if this does work with 3.0.0 ...

If you set a Style to be only usable for Usergroup X, then only Usergroup X will see the Style in the Style-Selector Dropdown in UserCP or the Quick Style-Chooser at the bottom of each page.
This is how it should work.

Did you also set it for admins to view.

I have an additional usergroup set up for my style.

Works great. Thank you.

ive checked the box for the admins to view and it removed it from the drop down.

when i select a box for any usergroup to be able to use the style, i loose it in the drop down, but if i have it activated for all to see, the style shows in the drop down.

Same problem here. Once I've selected the style, it completely vanishes from the drop-down menu..... even if I change to a different style.... it doesn't re-appear and I can't re-select it from the menu.

OK edit. This appears to only take into consideration secondary usergroups. I create a styles usergroup and anyone who is in this as secondary can see the additional styles in the dropdrown menus.

Strange. Does work just fine for me and I cannot reproduce the problem.

@nighteyes
Which Version do you use?
If you don't mind, pease send me a PM with an ACP and FTP account for your site so I can take a look at what is going wrong.

See above edit Kirby. Is this the way it's supposed to work? :)

No, but there was a bug in the instructions.

should have been
instead.
Does it also work with primary usergroups when you change this?

Yep that fixes the problem. Thanks for posting a fix so quickly. :)

This may be a dumb question, but what does editing global.php do? When I edited it, it kept giving me parse errors so I reverted to a saved backup of the file. The hack still works.

Without the global.php edit Users can still use any Style (that has User Select = Yes).
If you get parse errors, you did not make the edit correctly - check again.

I see. They cannot select a restricted style from the dropdown menu, but they can still type the direct url of the board with that style and see it. Like http://www.mysite.com/index.php?s=&styleid=10 if Style #10 was restricted.

This is the parse error I keep getting. The edits for global.php are not very hard and i've tried it 4 or 5 times and still keep getting the error.