Revo:- Getting the user's role in the front-end

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keiron77 Reply #1, 15 years, 11 months ago

I have managed to return the user’s information by using the API like this:

$profile = $modx->user->getOne('Profile');

Following this I want to the get the user’s group role to find out if they are allowed to see certain parts of my snippet. I have tried all of the following but they don’t work

$profile->getOne('UserRole');
$profile->getOne('modUserRole');
$profile->getMany('UserRole');
$profile->getMany('modUserRole');

The getMany() lines return empty arrays, getOne() returns nothing. I would presume getMany() is likely to be correct as a user could be long to multiple groups and therefore multiple roles.

The user I am testing it on has the role of ’Moderator’ within a user group. I don’t need to know which group they are in, just the role (name or id) within it. Reason: All Moderators can update elements regardless of the group they are in.

Any idea? I have trawled the forums, the web and looked through Bob’s Guides but I haven’t found the answer as yet.

Any Ideas?

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splittingred Reply #2, 15 years, 11 months ago

$c = $modx->newQuery('modUserGroupMember');
$c->innerJoin('modUserGroupRole','UserGroupRole');
$c->where(array(
   'UserGroupRole.name' => 'Moderator',
   'modUserGroupMember.member' => $modx->user->get('id'),
));
$membership = $modx->getObject('modUserGroupMember');
if ($membership) {
   /* they're a member, do code. */
}

should work.

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keiron77 Reply #3, 15 years, 11 months ago

It works, but with a small tweak:

$c = $modx->newQuery(’modUserGroupMember’);
$c->innerJoin(’modUserGroupRole’,’UserGroupRole’);
$c->where(array(
’UserGroupRole.name’ => ’Moderator’,
’modUserGroupMember.member’ => $modx->user->get(’id’),
));
$membership = $modx->getObject(’modUserGroupMember’, $c);
if ($membership) {
/* they’re a member, do code. */
}

Thanks for you help.

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jpdevries Reply #4, 11 years, 3 months ago

I'm trying to do something similar to this, but I'm trying to get the numeric ID for the role a user is in a given user group. This is being used for a duplicateusergroup.php script.
https://gist.github.com/jpdevries/7c17dce93df93ca932e2

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jpdevries Reply #5, 11 years, 3 months ago

Got by with a little help from BobRay
https://forums.modx.com/thread/30865/change-user-s-role-in-snippet#dis-post-528516

I'm using this

        $userGroupMember = $modx->getObject('modUserGroupMember', array('user_group'=>$userGroup, 'member'=>$userID));
        $role = $userGroupMember->get('role');

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