Arrgh, ever since I upgraded from UBB 6.5b5 long long ago, the change from having a user's groups listed as a string (ie: -3-5-7-) to a sequence of DB entries has made several of my most important revenue-generating hacks and mods impossible. I was told that this change made it possible to have "more groups", but I personally will never use more than 10, and even if I were using 50 groups, the change has made it impossible for me to
do anything with whatever groups I have (aside from UBB's built in group-based forum access permissions).
There is no simple way (ie: UBB6.5's calling U_Groups and searching for the significant one) to make this or that thing conditional to a member belonging to a certain group any more. No more group-specific vanity images (that people were willing to pay for), no more unlimited edit time or other perks for members of a specific paying group. For the longest time now, I've had to handle every one of those things manually, and every time I go back into the code and look at automating it, I end up giving up in frustration because I'm a decent modder, but not a full up php programmer. ARRGH!
Can anyone share a simple snippet of multi-use UBB 7x code that checks for group membership in such a way that results are usable in a basic IF conditional, along the lines of this UBB6.5 gem:
$user = $userob -> authenticate("U_TextCols, U_TextRows, U_Preview,U_Groups");
$Username = $user['U_Username'];
if (strstr($user['U_Groups'],"-5-")) {
$config['edittime'] = 99999;
}
