Checking logged in status for editing

helsnicht · Hangin' Around Joined: Jan 25, 2008 Posts: 42

I'm tring to allow for people to edit their bio within the MILPACS module. It has a field within the database to assign a nukeusername with a profile. So I'm wondering how to write it so that it checks that the username thats logged into nuke matches that of the milpacs nukeusername and allow for them and only them to edit the bio much like the forum does to allow for editing posts.

Such as if jdoe is logged in and went to his profile within milpacs he would see a link that'll let him edit his bio, but if he went to someone elses profile he wouldn't see the link.

I went into viewtopic.php and looked at the code to allow for editing of posts which is

Code:

if ( ( $userdata['user_id'] == $poster_id && $is_auth['auth_edit'] ) || $is_auth['auth_mod'] )

But I'm not for sure how to convert that over to work with what I'm wanting. Anyone have some insight for me?

montego · Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 6:52 am

Have you checked with the author? Donovan here is the original author of this module.

helsnicht · Hangin' Around Joined: Jan 25, 2008 Posts: 42

Yes, I'm aware that Donovan is the auther of MILPACS. I know he frequents here quiet often, one reason I posted the question here instead of the 3rdID's site. I figured if I asked a whole group of coders instead of a single person I would have better odds at finding the answer. Though it seems not many people have the time these days to help, so I'll just move on to something else, and jump back to this when I figure out how to do it or someone replies.

montego · Posted: Sat Jun 21, 2008 6:27 am

helsnicht, its not just "not many people have the time these days to help", which is true to some degree, but its also a factor that MILPACS is not something that I, and others here, are really familiar with. I don't even know how the nukeusername is used. Is this the same as the user_id field in *nuke? I also don't know what other code MILPACS has already to grab the $userinfo within *nuke.

One way to get the logged in user's UserID and name is:

if (is_user($user)) {
cookiedecode($user);
$uid = intval($cookie[0]);
$uname = $cookie[1];
}

Now you have $uid and $uname to work with...