Question about calling PHP functions within a thread

[MoH672]

Sure, sorry I haven't been able to describe it accurately.



Of course, I don't want it to be in quote tags I just included that for formatting reasons.

[Lynne]

OK, but this is only one specific post (the first post) in one specific thread, right?

[MoH672]

Correct.

[Lynne]

I still think a page is a better idea cuz if you do it in a thread, that means you are going to be doing some sort of condition to check the thread id every single time someone hits the showthread page.

But if you want to do it in a thread, I'd create a plugin at the hook location I suggested and first do a condition to check the thread id. If that passes, check the post id. If that passes, then do some conditions based on the usergroup and concatenate your stuff to the $post[messagetext] (or whatever it's called).

[MoH672]

Ok, so I guess that brings me to a new question.

I've created a new page called calculator.php (at myforums.com/forums/calculator.php) using this tutorial and want to restrict the page to certain usergroups. I have tried the following:

PHP Code:

<?php
if ( $bbuserinfo[usergroupid] == 5 ) {
    echo "<font face='Tahoma' size='4' color='#FFFFFF'>This is 
a test using permissions in PHP.</font>";
}
else {
    echo "<font face='Tahoma' size='4' color='#FFFFFF'>You do 
not have permission to access this page.</font>";
}
?>

But it still returns "You do not have permission to access this page." even though I am in the proper usergroup. What am I doing wrong?

[Lynne]

Use this:

PHP Code:

if (!isset($vbulletin->userinfo['userid']) OR $vbulletin->userinfo['userid'] == 0 OR !is_member_of($vbulletin->userinfo,x,y,z))
{
    print_no_permission();
} 


Change x,y,z to the usergroup ids you *want* to allow - all others will get No Permission - or modify the print_no_permission per your code above.