Global.php?

[colicab-d]

Hi i put this code into global.php in an attempt to get some user specific graphics in my postbits.

PHP Code:


switch ($bbuserinfo[usergroupid])
{

case 6 : $stbg="http://www.artorg.co.uk/cupboards/admin.gif"; break ;

case 8 : $stbg="http://www.artorg.co.uk/cupboards/contrib.gif"; break  ;

case 5 : $stbg="http://www.artorg.co.uk/cupboards/staff.gif"; break  ;

} 


i tried just putting $stbg in the postbit template but to no luck?

how woul di get it to output the pictures in the postbit?

soz if this is a newb question im just not to sure about the workings of eval and stuf in vbulletin.

Any help is v.much appreciated

[rake]

Put it in functions.php, getpostbit function. And use $post[usergroupid].

[filburt1]

Actually use $post['usergroupid']. The other way is deprecated.

[colicab-d]

thnx guys will do

[Boofo]

Today at 04:38 PM filburt1 said this in Post #3
Actually use $post['usergroupid']. The other way is deprecated.

What the hell does "deprecated" mean? Talk english, filburt. Geesh!

[filburt1]

You shouldn't do it anymore

Search around at php.net for the explanation but the short story is that you're implying that usergroupid is a constant when it's really a literal.

[Boofo]

Shouldn't do what anymore?

Won't it work either way, though?

[filburt1]

It'll work either way but it's extremely bad programming practice to rely on deprecated methods.

[rake]

Array do's and don'ts
Why is $foo[bar] wrong?
You should always use quotes around an associative array index. For example, use $foo['bar'] and not $foo[bar]. But why is $foo[bar] wrong? You might have seen the following syntax in old scripts:


<?php
$foo[bar] = 'enemy';
echo $foo[bar];
// etc
?>



This is wrong, but it works. Then, why is it wrong? The reason is that this code has an undefined constant (bar) rather than a string ('bar' - notice the quotes), and PHP may in future define constants which, unfortunately for your code, have the same name. It works, because the undefined constant gets converted to a string of the same name automatically for backward compatibility reasons.