Need help with "threads starter" template conditional
 

In the threadbit, I have this piece of code:

I want to wrap a condtional around it to test if the thread starter is an administrator and add a title to the display.

Can this be done with template conditionals, if so, which one? All the ones I have tried test for the user rather than the thread starter.

I am thinking something like :

<if condition="$threadstarter = usergroupid 5,6">

for example. Does a template conditional exist for this kind of test?

TIA for any suggestions.

Try:

Thanks Lynne, I tried it and got unexpected results. I thought it worked at first. I expected that only the administrators would be selected but it also select post from one of the registered users who is not an administrator.

If I do an explicit "<if condition="$thread['postuserid'] == 1">" only the administrator posts are correctly selected but what I want is to be able to select the usergroupid to which $thread[postuserid] belongs.

When I changed you example to 2 thinking it would select all the "registered users", it didn't select any even through some do exist.

Any ideas?

Now that I relook at that condition, I can see it won't work. It needs the usergroupid, not the id of the user. Instead of $thread[postuserid], you can try $thread[groupuserid] or just $thread, but I don't think the usergroupid is ever grabbed. And, if it isn't, then you will have to get it with the help of a plugin you write.

That's what I thought just needed to verify it. thanks very much.

When you grab the user info, you will want to fetch all the info for the threads all in one query.

Thanks, I haven't started on the query yet, are you thinking I need a join? I was thinking that I would try to do a select on user where userid = $thread[postuserid] and grab the usergroupid from there, like
then I will test for what usergroup and assign it to a $is_admin variable for example.

I only have 4 usergroups that I care about so it not that big of a problem. I would wrap the conditional around my display code:

I got sidetracked with it because I was trying to use user conditions on a variable value test so it either selected all threads or none. So I am thinking that the thread starter is a variable I should be able to test for to find out what group they are in then add a title or image next to the name in the thread display.

I am thinking that the threadbit_display hook, should that be correct?

If you are thinking something different, I'd be glad to hear about it.

thanks, Michael

Look for the query in forumdisplay that grabs all the threads to display there. Right above the query is hopefully a hook. Use that hook to grab the usergroupid of the thread starter.