change user permission

[ahmedHasan]

Hello all,

I'm new in vBulletin programming.

I want to change user permssions to access certain forums in my vBulletin via PHP script. I can accept if i can create new user group or even update the permission for each user (Edit Access mask)

I've read the manual, searched on the forum for help but i don't find any thing.
Can someone helps me how to do that (if possible)?

Thanks
Ahmed

[kh99]

Here's a short test script that adds a secondary usergroup to a user:

PHP Code:

require_once('./global.php');

// init data manager
$userdata =& datamanager_init('User', $vbulletin, ERRTYPE_CP);

$userid = 6;
$addgroupid = 9;

$userinfo = fetch_userinfo($userid);
if (!$userinfo)
{
   print_stop_message('invalid_user_specified');
}
$userdata->set_existing($userinfo);

$secondary_groups = fetch_membergroupids_array($userinfo, false);
if (!in_array($addgroupid, $secondary_groups))
{
    $secondary_groups[] = $addgroupid;
    $userdata->set('membergroupids', $secondary_groups);
    $userdata->save();
}

echo "OK"; 


So you could create a user group that adds he necessary permission, then use something like this to add that group to a user as a secondary group.

[ahmedHasan]

Thank you Kh99 for your reply

But, What i really want is some code (if possible) to create a user group.

Best regards
Ahmed

[ahmedHasan]

Can someone help me, or confirm that this is not possible with vBulletin current APIs?

Thnaks in advance

[kh99]

It can be done - it's done in admincp/usergroup.php, in the section that starts with

// ###################### Start insert / update #######################
if ($_POST['do'] == 'update')
{

That code uses the values submitted from the adminCP usergroup form so you'd have to adapt it. For instance, some of the values are expected to be in $vbulletin->GPC['usergroup'], so you can easily replace that with your own array.