Help me set usergroupid to a custom user field

[Galen]

Take a look at the second-to-last line (DB_site).

// ###################### Start do moderate and coppa #######################
if ($HTTP_POST_VARS['action']=="domoderate") {

  while (list($key,$val)=each($validate)) {
    if ($val==1) {

      $user=$DB_site->query_first("SELECT username,email FROM user WHERE userid=$key");
      $username=unhtmlspecialchars($user[username]);

      eval("\$message = \"".ereg_replace("\"","\\\"",$email)."\";");
      eval("\$subject = \"".ereg_replace("\"","\\\"",$subject)."\";");

      mail ($user[email],$subject,$message,"From: $webmasteremail");

      $DB_site->query("UPDATE user SET usergroupid=2 WHERE userid=$key");
    }
  }

  echo "<p>Accounts validated and users notified</p>";

}

Where it says SET usergroupid=2, I would like instead for it to set the usergroupid to a custom user field number that is selected at registration.

So, instead of SET usergroupid=2, I'd like it to say, SET usergroupid=field8.

Except, this doesn't work - I don't know how to properly insert the value of field8 into usergroupid. Any suggestions?

[Xenon]

replace this:

PHP Code:

$DB_site->query("UPDATE user SET usergroupid=2 WHERE userid=$key"); 


with this:

PHP Code:

$fields=$DB_site->query_first("SELECT field8 FROM userfields WHERE userid=$key");
$DB_site->query("UPDATE user SET usergroupid=".$fields[field8]." WHERE userid=$key"); 


should work, but be carefull, because the can became admins when field8 == 6 so i'd add an ifclause before

[Galen]

But... it didn't work.

Here's the error message:

Database error in vBulletin Control Panel 2.2.6:

Invalid SQL: SELECT?field8?FROM?userfields?WHERE?userid=1188
mysql error: You have an error in your SQL syntax near 'SELECT?field8?FROM?userfields?WHERE?userid=1188' at line 1

mysql error number: 1064

Thank you for helping me. Do you know how to fix this?

[Galen]

by the way, my registration form is edited so that users can only select from a menu of values - and admin's not on there!

My URL is http://www.zbths.net/noiz/register.php - if that can help you.

[Xenon]

look at the errormessage, you've uploaded a corrupted file, be sure you upload an ascii file

as you can see all spaces have been converted to an Ê, redo this change

[Galen]

The rest of user.php still works... but when I go to process my users (aka, set usergroupid=field8), I get the error message, and an e-mail with the corrupted-looking characters.

Any idea?

Thank you so much.

-galen

[Xenon]

yes it is corrupted, perhaps you use an editor which corrupts the file at the edited lines.

try to use notepad instead

[Galen]

but here's the new error message:

Database error in vBulletin Control Panel 2.2.6:

Invalid SQL: SELECT field8 FROM userfields WHERE userid=1188
mysql error: Table 'zbths_net.userfields' doesn't exist

mysql error number: 1146

Thank you.

-galen

[Galen]

Nevermind! I found the problem - you had added an "s" to userfield.

Thank you for your help. You rock!

Is there a way I can commend you?

-galen

[Xenon]

damn typings

It's my job to help people here