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Display user email if it is logged (from a non-modx table)

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    gummot85 Reply #1, 9 years ago
    Hi, I'm newbie in Modx and I'm working in a website developed on Revolution 2.1.3-pl.

    The site has some non-modx tables designed for a particular module that allows to visitors to register in a website section for ask for tips/questions.

    Now I need to display the user email if it logged, my question is, how can I make this and show it on the header of the site (a sql query perhaps?). If it not logged (or is not registered) display the message "Your not logged".

    I have the following code tested on a snippet but that's just the beginning:

    <?php
$link = 'http://'.$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'].$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];

$cookie_name = "user";
$cookie_value = $_POST["mail"];
setcookie($cookie_name, $cookie_value,  time() + (60 * 30), "/"); // 5 min

//If user is on the questions section
if(strpos($link, '/tips-help/') !== false){
   echo "Welcome";
   echo "Your Email is: " .$_POST["mail"];

}
//If user is out of the questions section
else{
   echo "You are out";
}


    Any help would really appreaciated,
    Regards.
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      Bruno17 Reply #2, 9 years ago
      is there a reason for not using the MODX - user-system?
      I think, this would make things much easier.

      To check, if a user is in a specific section, you could create a TV 'section'
      with @INHERIT as default value (this does inherit the value to all children)
      and set the value of the top-parent to 'tips-help'

      then in your snippet:

      if ($modx->resource->getTVValue('section') == 'tips-help'){
    $output = $modx->getChunk($yesChunk);
} else {
    $output = $modx->getChunk($noChunk);
}

return $output;



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        gummot85 Reply #3, 9 years ago
        Thanks for your response.

        This particular module in the site was designed independently and works with 3 extra tables (for users, questions and responses) as I understand who developed it wanted to keep separted these external users of the managers or admins (we also have several editors) in the site.

        That's the reason that we have and use both, modx_users and q_users tables, but I'm agree with you, working just with modx_users would make things easier.

        I'll try your suggestion,
        Regards
        • sottwell Reply #4, 9 years ago
          That is what user groups are for. Only users belonging to groups that have permission to access the "mgr" context are manager or admin users. Other groups are given access to the "web" context.
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            BobRay Reply #5, 9 years ago
            By all means make them all MODX users in the modx_user table if possible. It will give you access to lots of solid extras that you won't be able to use otherwise and finer control over which pages they can, and can't, see.
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