[vB4] Forum Block conditionals

[dimopoulos]

Greetings,

I am trying to use conditionals on forum blocks.

I have created a forum block, set it to PHP and have the following conditional:

<vb:if condition="is_member_of($bbuserinfo, 19,14)">

    <strong>One</strong>

<vb:elseif condition="is_member_of($bbuserinfo, 2)" />

    <strong>Two</strong>

<vb:elseif condition="is_member_of($bbuserinfo, 1,3,4)" />

    <strong>Three</strong>

</vb:if>

Unfortunately the block doesn't even appear on the screen. I have of course flushed the cache thinking that that might have been the problem.

When I change the content type to HTML it shows just fine (all of it) so the conditionals are ignored.

Basically I want to display different messages to different members of my boards.

Is the above feasible?

Thank you in advance for any pointers.

[Paul M]

If you choose the html option then the block can only contain [real] html, not template syntax.

If you choose the php option then the contents must be actual php code (like a plugin), with the desired output assigned to the variable $output.

To do what you want, would require the php option, with the relevant code to render a custom template.

[dimopoulos]

Hello Paul. Thank you for your reply.

I tried using

$o = 'hello';
return $o;

and it works fine.

Now to access the usergroup IDs that the user belongs, do I need to use the:

$vbulletin->userinfo['usergroupid']

object? Is this correct and if yes, does that return an array? Will is_member_of() work with it i.e. does the forum block have access to the functions.php methods?

Thanks in advance.