block permission according to message count.

[deniz]

in block permission there is no group whic according to message count.

i need a block which comes in view to specific user group.

for example if user has 0 message block seems just this gorup.  etc.

[anunlike]

Good idea. I can think of some specific uses for this.

[Sineksekiz]

I may be shouldn't resurrect an old topic like this but deniz has put it exactly the way I wanted to.

Is there anyway to set block permisions by member groups according to message count? I did not try the TP 1.6 Beta, does it has this option or could you tell me in which file I need to modify to do this?

Thank you...

[Ken.]

In your block edit screen you should see "Choose your membergroups that will able to see this block."

[Sineksekiz]

Hi Ken.

I know where would you want me to look at. But  there is only normal member groups. I can't see membergorups according to message count there...

If this helps I am using SMF 1.1.6, Midnight Theme and TP 0.9.8 ....

Thank you.

[IchBin]

Post based groups are not part of the TP permissions. There's no option to do this type of thing without coding the block to have the custom option.

[Sineksekiz]

Hi IchBinâ,,¢

Please let me know where can I tweak these settings? Or is there a mod for this? If you give me a headstart about where should I start I would want to give it a go.

Thank you.

[IchBin]

Its not a setting you can tweak. I was referring to writing some code in the block to check for post count or something.

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if ($user_info['post_count'] < 100)

echo ' Display something for users with less than 100 posts';

That is just an example of what I mean. I'm not sure ATM if anything exists in the $user_info array that has the users post count in it. Eating lunch, so I'll check later.

[Ianedres]

Unless I missed it, I don't see a post count within the $context array; probably only loaded while checking stats, as it does show in the member summary page in the profile.

Wrote a brief SQL query to count the number of posts for ID_MEMBER, but this did not correlate to the summary page...

Can investigate further, but if all you want to do is to check against NO messages (versus an exact count) then a query might be the best bet and quickest adaption...

[Sineksekiz]

How does SMF manages this. Can't we use same query? I'm always scared of this query business since if I wouldn't do proply it would slow down the site...

Can we copy or re-arange SMFs hadling method? So I would be able to use same user groups and if I would change any of them I wouldn't have to change the code as well....