[addamroy]

I'm looking for an if condition that can check for the usergroup of the thread starter for each thread in the thread list via the threadbit template.

In posts I show certain content in the postbit_legacy template that only shows if the thread starter is in a certain usergroup. For that I use the following condition (where 60 would be the usergroup id)

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However I this condition doesn't work in the threadbit template.

Just edited this, I just need a thread starter conditional for the threadbit template.

[addamroy]

Anyone?

[kh99]

Try using $thread['usergroupid']. I don't know how it gets there, but it looks like it's there.

[addamroy]

That's actually pulling the usergroup ID of the last post... for some reason. Instead of the thread starter.

[kh99]

Well, in that case you'd need to have a plugin get the usergroup and set a field that you can test in the template.

[addamroy]

Hmm that makes sense. Unfortunately all I know for php and vb coding is if-else conditions lol, learning though. Can you give me some guidance on how to accomplish the usergroup check via a bulletin, so i can use a condition in the threadbit template for it?

[mokujin]

Try this everywhere in threadbit template: <vb:if condition="$thread['usergroupid'] == 60">Your text here</vb:if>

[addamroy]

We already tried that suggestion (via a post above), unfortunately that checks the usergroup of the last poster, not the thread starter.

[Lynne]

Unfortunately, looking at the query shows me the there is a JOIN with the user table based on the lastposterid, not the postuserid. This means you would need to write a query to find out the usergroup. That is one query per thread listed. It's a simple query which will probably be just fine on a non-busy site or one that is not on an overloaded shared server, but it's something you should think about.

[addamroy]

I'm not a php guru dude at all, I just have a vague understanding of the basics and can only write the most basic of code (like I'll go back and forth from dreamweaver to php.net copy/pasting etc ) but i do understand what you mean.

There is not ANY data available in threadbit besides the username of the threadstarter?

Wouldn't it be simple enough just to add each username to an array, then check all the usernames in the array and and assign their usergroups with one query, before each individual thread is loaded? Like I said I don't know too much about PHP and wouldn't know how to create such a function, but since the username is available and there are no duplicate usernames in the db couldn't it be done by creating one array and executing one query with it?

[LifesGreatestGift]

create new plugin

Hook Location: threadbit_display
Title: usergroup check for threadstarter in threadbit
Plugin PHP Code:

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then in template threadbit

You could do

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The 6 being the group you want to check, and this example 6 is the Administrator group.

This checks the primary and additional groups of a thread starter.

[addamroy]

Thanks!

Like Lynne said about the additional queries, I really only want to do this one or two sections of the forum. Is there anyway to have the plug-in only run that query for specific forums?

[LifesGreatestGift]

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change 1,2,3 to forums you want it to run in.

[addamroy]

When I go to save the threadbit template after inserting your if conditional, I get the following error message:

"Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in [path]/includes/functions.php on line 3568

Forum Message
The following error occurred when attempting to evaluate this template:
%1$s
This is likely caused by a malformed conditional statement. It is highly recommended that you fix this error before continuing, but you may continue as-is if you wish."

[LifesGreatestGift]

Originally Posted by kh99

Kudos to LifesGreatestGift for writing the plugin. But I think there may be one small problem: on this line:

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I think you want thread.postuserid instead of thread.firstpostid.

As is, if you do a var_dump on $groups it shows the proper primary and secondary groups of the threadstarter.
The code works, I just messed up the "Specific forums" conditional.

if (in_array($thread['forumid'], array(1,2,3)))

please review other mods and vB code for proper usage. But other than that, the code is sound, and taken directly from forumdisplay.php

--------------- Added 25 Feb 2013 at 16:54 ---------------

Originally Posted by addamroy

When I go to save the threadbit template after inserting your if conditional, I get the following error message:

"Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in [path]/includes/functions.php on line 3568

Forum Message
The following error occurred when attempting to evaluate this template:
%1$s
This is likely caused by a malformed conditional statement. It is highly recommended that you fix this error before continuing, but you may continue as-is if you wish."

you must be doing something wrong because the code is tested as working 100% on vanilla vbulletin 4.2 pl3

--------------- Added 25 Feb 2013 at 16:55 ---------------

i didnt even mess up the conditional it all works 100%

--------------- Added 25 Feb 2013 at 16:59 ---------------

It was throwing an error, try this code

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