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Show content from different groups to other groups

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Little hard to explain but what I mean is the following:

I've 2 user groups
A
and
B

if some user from group A checks out a profile from group B he needs to see different content (blocks) then from his own.

What I have now is:
<?php
  $grp = Group::getByName('A');
  if($u->inGroup($grp)) {
    echo 'do stuff here';
  }
?>
<?php
  $grp = Group::getByName('B');
  if($u->inGroup($grp)) {
    echo 'do stuff here';
  }
?>

But that is checking for the current logged in user. Can this be changed to the current profile you're watching ?
 
admin replied on at Permalink Reply
no one has any idea how this should be done ?
jshannon replied on at Permalink Reply
jshannon
The profile page (ie, the view in /single_pages/profile) gets passed a variable representing the user that the profile is for. It's something like $user.

You can figure it out pretty easily by looking at the controller. Or by just dumping out all variables that are available and sorting through those. (Something like var_dump(get_defined_vars()); );
admin replied on at Permalink Reply
Not really a native english speaker and I think you mis understood me (sorry for my english in this case ;) )

What I now have in view.php (/single_pages/profile/view.php) is this:

$u = new User();
   $ui = UserInfo::getByID($u->getUserID());


this is used for some thinks on the profile page that is working great. However I have 2 different user groups with 2 different profile pages. So I created the following:
$grp = Group::getByName('A');
  if($u->inGroup($grp)) {
    echo 'do stuff here';
  }

(check the main post for the other code)
This ($u->inGroup) is only checking for the user that is logged in (for example I'm a user that is logged in and I belong in group A). As I view my profile I get to see this block. So that is working just fine.

BUT when I want to view a group B profile (as a group A user) I get to see a group A profile on a group B profile.

Does it makes sense?

To get it clear:
User 1 in group A sees his own profile (that is working)
User 1 in Group A checksout User 2 in Group B - but he sees his own profile layout (not the b layout because the user viewing is from group A)
jshannon replied on at Permalink Reply
jshannon
Yes. I understand.

Basically, you need $u to be "the user that the profile 'belongs' to". So you can call 

if ($userThatThisProfilePageBelongsToIsUser2ButNotUser1WhichImLoggedInAs->inGroup($grp)) {


So of course that user is going to be available. How else would the various attributes (name, avatar image, etc) get printed out? So just take a look at what variable that is. (I think it's $profile or something.)
admin replied on at Permalink Reply
Thanks alot for helping! I will reply back when I found something :)
admin replied on at Permalink Best Answer Reply
And after looking at it for some min I got it, thanks again!

What the problem was, in the profile page (single_page) the userid is checked with this:
$ui = UserInfo::getByID($u->getUserID());

Now just simply do the samething, except change $u to $profile (since we want the profile that is getting viewed)
$uv = User::getByUserID($profile->getUserID()); 
  $grp = Group::getByName('A');
  if($uv->inGroup($grp)) {
    echo 'do stuff here';
  }
$grp = Group::getByName('B');
  if($uv->inGroup($grp)) {
    echo 'do stuff here';
  }
rosie607 replied on at Permalink Reply
rosie607
Great solution, I was trying to do this too :-)