Display a forum block only to certain usergroups

[pjkcards]

I'm having a hard time doing this.

I've used an HTML content type with this, and no luck:

<vb:if condition="is_member_of($bbuserinfo, 1, 2, 3, 4, 15, 17)">
text
</vb:if>

And I've also tried this with no luck (want to display to everyone but 16):

<vb:if condition="!is_member_of($bbuserinfo, 16)">
text
</vb:if>

Can I modify permissions anywhere else for forum blocks since this isn't working for some reason? Thanks.

[kh99]

You can't use <vb:if... in html, only in a template. You could put your html in a template, make your widget PHP Direct Execution and use:

PHP Code:

$templater = vB_Template::create('my_template');
$output = $templater->render(); 


or you could use this code without making a template

PHP Code:

if (!is_member_of(vB::$vbulletin->userinfo, 16))
{
    $output = "<div> This is my html
blah blah
";
} 


or you could put your html in a template and

[pjkcards]

Originally Posted by kh99

You can't use <vb:if... in html, only in a template. You could put your html in a template, make your widget PHP Direct Execution and use:

PHP Code:

$templater = vB_Template::create('my_template');
$output = $templater->render(); 


or you could use this code without making a template

PHP Code:

if (!is_member_of(vB::$vbulletin->userinfo, 16))
{
    $output = "<div> This is my html
blah blah
";
} 


or you could put your html in a template and

Edit: I got it to work after playing with it a bit. It blocks all the content within the block, but it doesn't hide the block itself. How do I have it hide the block itself?

Thanks!

[kh99]

Oops...yeah, I'm not sure what problem you're having exactly, but I just realized that it won't work like that because of the caching. I'm not sure if there's a way to write a PHP type block that doesn't cache. I'll look in to it...

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OK - should have thought of this before, sorry. Anyway, go back to using a static html widget. Copy the contents of the template vbcms_widget_static_page and create a new widget with the same contents but surround it with the 'if' tags, like

<vb:if condition="!is_member_of($bbuserinfo, 16)">
<div class="cms_widget">
	<div class="block">
		<div class="cms_widget_header">
		<h3><img src="{vb:stylevar imgdir_siteicons}/html.png" alt="" /> {vb:raw widget_title}</h3>
		</div>
		<div class="cms_widget_content_restore_widget_content">
		{vb:raw static_html}
		</div>
	</div>
</div>
</vb:if>

Save it with some new name, then configure your widget and put that template in as the template name and your html in the html box.

[malmazan]

Would it be possible to have a Latest Threads forum block where a usergroup was shown latest threads for some forums and another usergroup was shown latest threads for other forums?

[kh99]

You would need code of some sort to make that work. I just reread this thread and realized that the original post asked about forum blocks and I was thinking widgets for some reason, so pjkcards, if you read this, sorry about that.