[WAR]

Originally Posted by EasyTarget

is there any solution to this besides not using secondary usergroups?

my situation..
its a gaming forum with different teams. The team captain has access to stuff that the rest of his team doesn't. The team captain is a member of the team captain group and his team group. Because this hack handles permissions differently than the forum the team captain can't access the team captain page because he's a member of the team group.

There's also an administration page for admins. Some admins are also team members. The admins can't access their pages because they are also in the team group which can't have access to the administration pages.

That was the same problem that I ran into. It's just a different mindset for how you are using vbulletin's permission system compared to how Logician apparently uses it (both being perfectly valid methods)

Here is one fix:

WARNING: The following changes will completely reverse the way that Logician has set up the permissions for this Hack. DO NOT USE this unless you completely understand what it is for!!!

function WT_UsergroupPermission($userinfo, $return10 = 1, $usergroupname = '')
{
	global $WT;  

	$permitted = 0;

	$WT['banusergroups'] = trim($WT['banusergroups']);

	if ($WT['banusergroups'])
	{
		$WT_banusergroups = explode(" ", $WT['banusergroups']);
		
		if (WTis_member_of($userinfo, $WT_banusergroups)) 
		{
			$permitted = 1;
		} 
		else 
		{
			$permitted = 0;
		}
		
		if ($userinfo[userid] > 0 AND in_array('('.$userinfo[userid].')', $WT_banusergroups)) 
		{
			$permitted = 1;
		}
	}


	
	if ($WT['draft'] == 1 AND !WTis_member_of($userinfo, array("6"))) //draft webtemplate
	{
		$permitted = 0;
	}

	if ($return10) //return 1 or 0
	{
		return $permitted;
	}
    else //return usergroup name with color (permitten green, banned red)
	{
		if ($permitted) 
		{
			return '<font color="#006600">'.$usergroupname.'</font>';
		}
		else 
		{
			return '<font color="#C40000">'.$usergroupname.'</font>';
		}
	}

}

EasyTarget, if you replace the default "function WT_UsergroupPermission" code found in wt_include.php with the above version, it will switch the way webtemplates permissions work from being an "opt-out" system to being an "opt-in" system. What that means is that the section marked
"Disallowed Usergroups
Mark usergroups who can NOT display this page"

Should now be treated as if it said
"Allowed Usergroups
Mark usergroups who CAN display this page"

and the "Disallowed Usernames" section should be treated as if it read:
"Allowed Usernames
Enter usernames who CAN display this page even if their usergroup is disallowed."

The above text will NOT ACTUALLY CHANGE unless you go in and edit it (I haven't bothered yet so I am not sure where it is), but you need to realize that by applying the above code you have completely changed how webtemplates processes usergroup permissions.

Logician is in no way responsible for the above change, and I am officially recommending that you do not apply this change unless you completely understand exactly what it does and are willing to accept complete responsibility for anything it or you may mess up in the process. (the code does work though, I have it running on two different live sites)