<vb:if condition="$bbuserinfo[userid]"> Not Working

[ExcelFox]

I am trying to have my BBCODE contents not viewable unless the user is logged in. I found a hack from this forum that will allow conditionals in BBCODE. I've installed that too.

What I'm trying to do is use

<vb:if condition="$bbuserinfo[userid]">
'Something here
<vb:else />
'Something else here
</vb:if>

When I try to do it as below, it gives me an error when the page is loaded

<div class="bbcode_container">
	<div class="bbcode_description">{vb:rawphrase code}:&nbsp;<input type="button" value="Click To Select" onclick="selectAll(this); return false;"></div>
	<pre class="bbcode_code"<vb:if condition="$vboptions['codemaxlines']">style="height:<vb:if condition="$blockheight<$vboptions['codemaxlines']">{vb:math {vb:raw blockheight}*{vb:stylevar mid_fontSize}+{vb:stylevar mid_fontSize}*2}<vb:else />{vb:math {vb:raw blockheight}*{vb:stylevar mid_fontSize}+{vb:stylevar mid_fontSize}}</vb:if>;"</vb:if>>
		<code>
			<vb:if condition="$bbuserinfo[userid]">
				{vb:raw code}
			<vb:else />
				<b><font color="green">Hello Guest!</font></b>
				<font color="black"><p>To post questions, download files, to provide solutions to queries and <b>especially to view this code</b>, <a href="register.php"><u>register for free!</u></a></p>
			</vb:if>
		</code>
	</pre>
</div>

The original code that works is below

<div class="bbcode_container">
	<div class="bbcode_description">{vb:rawphrase code}:&nbsp;<input type="button" value="Click To Select" onclick="selectAll(this); return false;"></div>
	<pre class="bbcode_code"<vb:if condition="$vboptions['codemaxlines']">style="height:<vb:if condition="$blockheight<$vboptions['codemaxlines']">{vb:math {vb:raw blockheight}*{vb:stylevar mid_fontSize}+{vb:stylevar mid_fontSize}*2}<vb:else />{vb:math {vb:raw blockheight}*{vb:stylevar mid_fontSize}+{vb:stylevar mid_fontSize}}</vb:if>;"</vb:if>><code>{vb:raw code}</code></pre>
</div>

Any idea what's going wrong?

--------------- Added [DATE]1365846255[/DATE] at [TIME]1365846255[/TIME] ---------------

This isn't throwing any error. However, I am not getting the message for a guest. Instead, I am getting the actual contents of the BBCode even if a user is logged in or not

<div class="bbcode_container">
	<div class="bbcode_description">{vb:rawphrase code}:&nbsp;<input type="button" value="Click To Select" onclick="selectAll(this); return false;"></div>
	<pre class="bbcode_code"<vb:if condition="$vboptions['codemaxlines']">style="height:<vb:if condition="$blockheight<$vboptions['codemaxlines']">{vb:math {vb:raw blockheight}*{vb:stylevar mid_fontSize}+{vb:stylevar mid_fontSize}*2}<vb:else />{vb:math {vb:raw blockheight}*{vb:stylevar mid_fontSize}+{vb:stylevar mid_fontSize}}</vb:if>;"</vb:if>>
		<code>

<vb:if condition="$bbuserinfo[userid]">
<b><font color="green">Hello Guest!</font></b>
				<font color="black"><p>To post questions, download files, to provide solutions to queries and <b>especially to view this code</b>, <a href="register.php"><u>register for free!</u></a></p>
<vb:else />

				{vb:raw code}
</vb:if>
		</code>
	</pre>
</div>

[kh99]

I don't know what mod you installed to allow conditions, but normally the contents of posts are cached to avoid processing them over and over every time anyone views a thread. But the result is that conditons like yours don't work correctly unless something was done to avoid caching.

[ExcelFox]

Thanks for your inputs. The mod that I installed is https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=149107

My objective is to mask the contents within the code wrap unless the user is logged in (not a guest). I have seen countless forums doing similar things (even this forum has something that does that). I just want to know how to do that.

[Lynne]

Did you read all of the modification thread? You need to have post caching disabled, as Kevin stated.

[ExcelFox]

Could you please let me know how to disable caching?

[kh99]

In the admincp setting, under Server Settings and Optimization Options, set Cached Posts Lifespan to 0.

[Christos Teriakis]

I'm reading it 00:30am so maybe I'm not reading well but I believe that you have the condition just the opposite:

<vb:if condition="!$bbuserinfo[userid]">
 ............Hello Guest!........... 
<vb:else /> 
{vb:raw code}
 </vb:if>

Also sometimes try different syntax with the same result. eg
Instead of:

$bbuserinfo[userid]

Try

$vbulletin->userinfo['userid']

And finally, is good to close all tags.... You have the <font color="black"> unclosed.

Edited: In my opinion is better to use:

<vb:if condition="$bbuserinfo[userid] > 0">

instead of:

<vb:if condition="!$bbuserinfo[userid]">

because (if I remember well such hour), even the guest are getting userid=0

Chris

[kh99]

Originally Posted by ChrisTERiS

Edited: In my opinion is better to use:

<vb:if condition="$bbuserinfo[userid] > 0">

instead of:

<vb:if condition="!$bbuserinfo[userid]">

because (if I remember well such hour), even the guest are getting userid=0

!$bbuserinfo[userid] is true if the userid is 0, so you're right about it being the reverse but it can be used to do the same check.

[Christos Teriakis]

Reply removed as it will leads in an endless discussion........

Chris

[ExcelFox]

Thanks a lot everybody. It seems to be working in my forum now. I will try out the suggestions given above too. And ChrisTERis, you were right about my wrongly sequencing the conditional statement. Other than that, I am not sure about the conversion between you and Kevin (I'm sure both of you know), but I'll go with

<vb:if condition="$bbuserinfo[userid] > 0">