[richy96]

@kh99
Thanks again for a reply

I had a look at the code you suggested and didn't really see what I hoped to see

	/**
	* Returns appropriate user info for the owner of this session.
	*
	* @return	array	Array of user information.
	*/
	function &fetch_userinfo()
	{
		if ($this->userinfo)
		{
			// we already calculated this
			return $this->userinfo;
		}
		else if ($this->vars['userid'] AND !defined('SKIP_USERINFO'))
		{
			// user is logged in
			$useroptions = (defined('IN_CONTROL_PANEL') ? FETCH_USERINFO_ADMIN : 0) + (defined('AVATAR_ON_NAVBAR') ? FETCH_USERINFO_AVATAR : 0);
			$this->userinfo = fetch_userinfo($this->vars['userid'], $useroptions, $this->vars['languageid']);
			return $this->userinfo;
		}
		else
		{
			// guest setup
			$this->userinfo = array(
				'userid'         => 0,
				'usergroupid'    => 1,
				'username'       => (!empty($_REQUEST['username']) ? htmlspecialchars_uni($_REQUEST['username']) : ''),
				'password'       => '',
				'email'          => '',
				'styleid'        => $this->vars['styleid'],
				'languageid'     => $this->vars['languageid'],
				'lastactivity'   => $this->vars['lastactivity'],
				'daysprune'      => 0,
				'timezoneoffset' => $this->registry->options['timeoffset'],
				'dstonoff'       => $this->registry->options['dstonoff'],
				'showsignatures' => 1,
				'showavatars'    => 1,
				'showimages'     => 1,
				'showusercss'    => 1,
				'dstauto'        => 0,
				'maxposts'       => -1,
				'startofweek'    => 1,
				'threadedmode'   => $this->registry->options['threadedmode'],
				'securitytoken'  => sha1(sha1(COOKIE_SALT) . USER_AGENT)
			);

I guess that's the relevant part of the fetch_userinfo() function as the rest seems to be to do with avatars, and selecting the correct phrase (languages)


Prob is here my php knowledge ain't quite good enough

function &fetch_userinfo() - what's the & for? I did do a bit of a google on this '&function' stuff but non of it seems to make much sense to me. In fact the info I found on php forms seems to say it doesn't really do anything much useful - or at least I couldn't find a sensible example.

$this->userinfo = fetch_userinfo($this->vars['userid'], $useroptions, $this->vars['languageid']);

Now the fetch_userinfo() function them seems to call itself with some arguments (constants) here, even though fetch_userinfo() doesn't seem to be declared to have any arguments - or at least I can't see it doing anything with arguments in the code - hence the empty ()

I can see the stuff where it builds the userinfo array for a guest, thats easy enough to follow.

I was rather expecting to see some SQL here that reads various tables and builds the userinfo array if you are logged in

Your php is a lot better than mine m8 - I think I just hit the limit of my understanding so far. Help!

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OK I have managed to do what I needed to do by adding some code to login.php to rebuild a couple of the counters in userinfo array the way I want them.

I still didn't find the SQL that initialises them on log in but what the hell it works the way I want it to now - and a couple extra SQL on login ain't gonna effect performance much

I would (for my own understanding) still like to know how the php above works though.

Rich