UBB.Developers Forums Community Development Programming PHP and Server-side Scripting Verify user by group

I am creating a page to be viewable only by members of a certain group, but am having problems finding the right info to check. Right now I can access the page as admin using this:

code:


if ($user['U_Status'] == 'Administrator') {
include "info.php";
} else {
echo "You are not authorized or not logged in.";
}

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Which works fine for me as admin, but I need it to work for an existing group called 'Members'. I'm still new to this stuff, but I bet this is an easy one for the gurus around here

Any help is appreciated!

1) Is there a call $user = $userob -> authenticate(...) before the code you provided above? If so, could you show me exactly what it looks like?

2) I assume that you want the page to be accessible by both administrators and users in the 'Members' group?

3) What's the ID of the 'Members' group? You can determine that with the query: SELECT G_Name,G_Id FROM w3t_Groups WHERE G_Name='Members'

The code up in the file is

code:

   $userob = new user;
   $user = $userob -> authenticate();

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That query returns:

G_Name G_Id
Members 5

Change

code:
$user = $userob -> authenticate();

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to

code:
$user = $userob -> authenticate('U_Groups');

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Then change the code in your first post to:

code:
if (($user['U_Status'] == 'Administrator') or strpos($user['U_Groups'],'-5-') !== false) { 
   include 'info.php'; 
} else { 
   echo 'You are not authorized or not logged in.'; 
}

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Works great! Many thanks!