UBB.Developers Forums UBB.threads 7 Development How Do I? How do I disable the PM feature by group?

How do I disable the PM feature by group?

This is a very good question. I'd like to know the answer as well.

For instance, Administrators can send and receive PM's but members of the Users group cannot.

bump.....any of the programmers/hackers have any ideas on this one?

Yeah, where's the love man. Someone must know how to do this.

See if this attachment works for you.

Untested.

But if it works, let me know, and I'll clean it up and post it.

Thank's I will try it, what if I want to restrict 2 groups, lets say group 3 and 4, I would change this right?
("/-3-/",$user['U_Groups']))
to maybe
("/-3-,-4-/",$user['U_Groups']))

I'm not sure if that will work.
Group 4 is not logged in. That check is already in there that they must be logged in.

If it had to be another group, I would probably try something like this:


if (((strstr("/-3-/",$user['U_Groups'])) || (strstr("/-5-/",$user['U_Groups'])))&& (($user['U_Status'] != "Administrator") && ($user['U_Status'] != "Moderator"))) {


I'm not sure if I got all the parenthesis correct.

Basically the first part || is or and the last part && is and. So if they are in group 3 (users) and group 5 (first custom group) and they are NOT an Admin or Mod then they get intercepted.

But my parenthesis may be wacked. Maybe there's a more-proper way.

Corrected use of strstr and simplified parentheses:

if ((strstr($user['U_Groups'],'/-3-/') || strstr($user['U_Groups'],'/-5-/')) && $user['U_Status'] != 'Administrator' && $user['U_Status'] != 'Moderator') {

Alternate way:

$in_3 = strstr($user['U_Groups'],'/-3-/');
$in_5 = strstr($user['U_Groups'],'/-5-/');
$is_mod = $user['U_Status'] == 'Moderator';
$is_admin = $user['U_Status'] == 'Administrator';

if (($in_3 or $in_5) and !$is_admin and !$is_mod) {

Thank you.
I knew you'd know.

I was seeing parentheses in my sleep.

Sometimes it's worthwhile to use auxiliary variables to break up a complex expression like that. In PHP, though, you have to be careful about adding new variables, because of the limited variable scoping capabilities.

Just tested it and it didn't work, I think I am doing everything right (I only need the one usergroup BTW) so that is the one I used, made sure test user was in group -5- then logged in as test user and could still send and recieve, any ideas?

This user isn't an admin or mod?

Just above the if statement you added, add this. This will output some info to the top of the screen, tell me what

echo "Groups: $user['U_Groups']<br />";

That'll let you see what it's seeing the user's groups as.

[] This user isn't an admin or mod? [/] Nope

[]Just above the if statement you added [/] The if statement in sendprivate.php?

Yeah, whichever one you are testing. sendprivate.php is for new messages, the other is for replies.

I just want to see if it's seeing the groups. Maybe we need to add it to the authenticate function, although I thought it was standard.

I get this in sendprivate.php

Parse error: parse error, expecting `T_STRING' or `T_VARIABLE' or `T_NUM_STRING' in /home/1/blazer90/coloradok5.com/forums/sendprivate.php on line 62

Did I put it in the wrong spot?

Doah sorry.

Try this:

echo "Groups: {$user['U_Groups']}<br />";

I may need to play with this hack a bit tonight and make sure it works. I can't see why it doesn't, but I might be missing the mega-obvious.

It outputs another brake return but no text.

Try doing the mod I've attached to this post.

Works awesome, thanks again.