template conditional question

[Tim Wheatley]

Hi,

I have searched, and didn't find an answer which I could interpret...

I want to display in the header template a conditional message, this message should only show to users who are not activated, ie: usergroup id 3

Obviously it's going to be a message telling them to activate.

Tim

[akiy]

Try something like:

<if condition="is_member_of($bbuserinfo, 3)">
INSERT MESSAGE HERE
</if>

or

<if condition="$bbuserinfo[usergroupid] == 3">
INSERT MESSAGE HERE
</if>

[Boofo]

Just put your conditional Above this in the header template:

 <!-- logo --> 

Something like:

<if condition="$bbuserinfo[usergroupid] == '3'">
Message goes here 
<else /> 

and then put an </if> after the closing logo line.

[Floris]

Nice idea to have an extra highlighted message in the header for this usergroup. Very - very nice idea which I will surely use on my web site.

Btw boofo: Congratulations

[Tim Wheatley]

Here is what I input at the top of the header template (for those interested)...

<if condition="is_member_of($bbuserinfo, 3)">
 <table border="1" width="100%" bordercolor="#800000" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="3">
   <tr>
 	<td width="100%" valign="middle" align="center"><b><font size="4">You
 	  have not yet activated your forum account. To re-request your activation
 	  e-mail please go <a href="faq.php?s=&amp;do=search&amp;q=activation">here</a>. You may have to de-activate any SPAM protection or
 	  our mail may not get through. If you did not enter a real e-mail at
 	  registration please go to your <a href="usercp.php">user cp</a> and change it, another activation
 	  mail will then be sent to the new address.</font></b></td>
   </tr>
 </table>
 
 <p>&nbsp;</p>
 <p>&nbsp;</p>
 </if>

The FAQ link is a bit I added about activation etc. Obviously at some point I need to move this text into a phrase so I can translate it for each language installed.

[Boofo]

Thanks, that is great! I changed the wording a little bit and added the user's name to make it a bit more personal. My wife works for a local cable company on their Internet Tech Support team and she has run into countless situations where the customer thinks that de-activate mean to un-install. And also there have been a few customers that aren't sure which computer you would be talking about with the SPAM software, theirs or the ISP's.

This is what I have now. Let me know what you think.

<if condition="is_member_of($bbuserinfo, 3)">
<table border="1" width="100%" bordercolor="#800000" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="3">
<tr>
<td width="100%" valign="middle" align="center"><b><font size="4">You have not yet activated your forum account, $bbuserinfo[username]. To re-request your activation e-mail, please click <a href="faq.php?s=&amp;do=search&amp;q=activation"><font color="gold">here</font></a>. You may have to temporarily de-activate any SPAM protection on your computer or the activation e-mail may not get through. If you did not enter your real e-mail address at registration, please go to your <a href="usercp.php"><font color="gold">user cp</font></a> and change it. Another activation e-mail will then be sent to the new address.</font></b></td>
</tr>
</table>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
</if>

Also, would you be willing to share the FAQ link info?

[merk]

The second conditional example that was given will work, however shouldnt be used.

You should use is_member_of to make sure they are not a member of that group in their aditional groups.

[Boofo]

Which conditional should we use? I'm confused with what you said about the membergroup thing.

[Floris]

The first was:

<if condition="is_member_of($bbuserinfo, 3)">
INSERT MESSAGE HERE
</if>

And he suggested not to use the second one.

[Boofo]

Thanks for clearing that up. Is there a link that a user can click that will automatically send them an activation email or take them to a screen that can?

How would you add multiple usergroups to that? Like this?

 <if condition="is_member_of($bbuserinfo, 1,3,8,9)"> 

[Floris]

I now use this on vBulletin.nl:

Open the navbar templates and find this code:

<!-- breadcrumb, login, pm info -->

Above this, on a new line, add this code:

<if condition="is_member_of($bbuserinfo, 3)">
<table border="1" width="100%" bordercolor="#800000" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="3">
<tr>
	 <td width="100%" align="left">
<strong><span class="normalfont">
You have not yet activated your forum account, $bbuserinfo[username]! <br />
To request your activation e-mail, click <a href="register.php?$session[sessionurl]&amp;do=requestemail&amp;email=$bbuserinfo[email]">here</a>.<br />
If you did not enter your real e-mail address at registration, please go to your <a href="profile.php?$session[sessionurl]&amp;do=editpassword">$vbphrase[user_cp]</a> and change it.<br />
For more details about registration, please click <a href="faq.php?faq=vb_user_maintain#faq_vb_why_register">$vbphrase[faq]</a>. <br />
You may have to temporarily de-activate any spam protection on your computer or the activation e-mail may not get through.
</span></strong>
	 </td>
</tr>
</table>
<br />
</if>

Save the template and enjoy

This looks like this:

[Boofo]

I see a couple of my suggestions about the wording were helpful.

Is the code in the message I posted above how you would add multiple groups?

[Floris]

No idea, actually. But that would cleanup quite a number of conditionals in my templates So I hope so

[merk]

You cannot use the code for multiple usergroups.

You must add an aditional check for each one (OR is_member_of($bbuserinfo, NEXTID)).

[Boofo]

Could you do an inarray with this?