XF 1.0 Conditionals for different usergroups

[Morgain]

My first effort at directing 3 different usergroups to 3 appropriate links.

<li><xen comment>IF FIRST</xen comment><xen:if is="{$visitor.user_id} == 8"><a href="mysite.10/">{xen:phrase  blah}</a></xen:if>
<xen comment>IF SEN</xen comment><xen:if is="{$visitor.user_id} == 9"><a href="mysite.49/">{xen:phrase  blah}</a></xen:if>
<xen comment>IF SCHOL</xen comment><xen:if is="{$visitor.user_id} == 7"><a href="mysite.5/">{xen:phrase blah}</a></xen:if>
</li>

I get error that - Template tags are not well-formed. <xen:if> was not closed.

 

[Chris D]

Nice try!

Firstly, {$visitor.user_id} is the user ID of the current visitor. Not the usergroup. So this won't work.

There is {$visitor.user_group_id} but that only contains the primary usergroup ID. There is also {$visitor.secondary_group_ids} but that is a string rather than an array so that's difficult to work with.

Thankfully, there's a nice way of handling this. XenForo created a template helper for this... There might also be a different way of doing your if statements too... but based on your example:

<li>
	<xen:if is="{xen:helper ismemberof, $visitor, 8}">
		<a href="mysite.10/">{xen:phrase blah}</a>
	</xen:if>
	<xen:if is="{xen:helper ismemberof, $visitor, 9}">
		<a href="mysite.49/">{xen:phrase blah}</a>
	</xen:if>
	<xen:if is="{xen:helper ismemberof, $visitor, 7}">
		<a href="mysite.5/">{xen:phrase blah}</a>
	</xen:if>
</li>

An alternate way of doing if statements...

With the above, if a member is part of usergroups 8, 9 AND 7 then they will see all three links. Is that intentional?

You could do this:

<li>
	<xen:if is="{xen:helper ismemberof, $visitor, 8}">
		<a href="mysite.10/">{xen:phrase blah}</a>
	<xen:elseif is="{xen:helper ismemberof, $visitor, 9}" />
		<a href="mysite.49/">{xen:phrase blah}</a>
	<xen:elseif is="{xen:helper ismemberof, $visitor, 7}" />
		<a href="mysite.5/">{xen:phrase blah}</a>
	</xen:if>
</li>

Notice the inclusion of elseif... If the user is a member of groups 8, 9 and 7 they will only see the link for group 8 (the first one matched). You can rearrange the order however you like to get a different result.

Either way, good luck

One last note:

I get error that - Template tags are not well-formed. <xen:if> was not closed.

Can't see that the <xen:if> tags aren't closed... but the comment tags aren't correct. They should be <xen:comment> rather than <xen comment>

 

[Morgain]

Nice try!
Firstly, ....
Either way, good luck

Thank you immensely for your very generous help. I got it to work and I am learning lots from what you showed me. You're a sweetheart.