Help requested: Auto entry into usergroup from fieldX profile entry

[makaiguy]

Originally Posted by MarcoH64

Would not be to difficult:
- Create user profile field
- Hack all places where a forum password is checked to match against the field stored in profile
- 1 query to reset all passes when changed (not even needed)

But how often does the organisations membership info change? Could you do with a text file that is once a day downloaded to your server?

Marco - thanks for sticking with me on this.

The org pwd is changed no more than twice a year. So it's not that big a deal for me to manually change the reference string I've stored in a global vBphrase when the pwd changes.

No need to run a query to update the pwds in user profiles when organization updates its pwd - the whole idea is to make the user update his own profile to prove he's a renewing member that has received the password independently.

I found the following code in forumdisplay.php:

// ############################### start enter password ###############################
if ($_REQUEST['do'] == 'doenterpwd')
{
	globalize($_REQUEST, array('forumid' => INT, 'newforumpwd' => STR, 'url' => STR, 'postvars'));

	$foruminfo = verify_id('forum', $forumid, 1, 1);

	if ($foruminfo['password'] == $newforumpwd)
	{
        ...

Now I know about enough php to fill a thimble around 5%, but this looks to be the area we'd need to hack. I'd want to bypass the password request popup under the following conditions:

1. forum being requested is number X (and how can I find the forum number? or can this check be done via forum title? [Edit: by examining the html for the password request page, it looks like my forum is number 3]), AND
2. the user's fieldX == $vBphrase['org_password']

... and just manually set $newforumpwd to $foruminfo['password'].

Can anyone help with the required code?

Originally Posted by joeychgo

Why not just add to the profile field, an option for the user to choose this?

Thanks, Joey, but I don't understand what you're suggesting. Can you elaborate? An option for the user to choose ... what?