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Hi all,

I am trying to pull what user/member groups a user belongs to. I believe I have founf what I need to do so but I can't use it properly. Any help would be great.

Here is what I've Tried:


My output on page is:


I have a user with the name "admin". Am I doing this wrong? I have looked around for a few hours now how to do this.

This is where I found the API: http://api.modx.com/revolution/2.1/_model_modx_moduser.class.html#%5CmodUser::getUserGroupNames()

Thanks

getUserGroupNames() doesn't take any arguments. It gets the groups of the currently logged-in user.


If you're previewing from the Manager, you're not logged in in the front end. Try putting the Login snippet on a page and logging in before checking the user groups.


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Ok I understand.

That being said, is there a way to find out what user group(s) a user belongs to via code? Not needing to to be logged in?

Doesn't look like there is a documented API function for getting data on a specified user.

Hrm, well I guess I'll have to learn modx DB API. I can achive what I need with regualar php and mysql and just grab the info from the DB. But I'd like to use modx.

I found something somewhat similar here http://www.unchi.co.uk/2010/10/31/get-all-members-of-a-user-group-in-modx-revolution/

There should be a way, though, of getting an object of type "User" and passing it a parameter of the username you're interested in, then getting the groups that user belongs to.



from this http://www.shawnwilkerson.com/modx-revolution/2012/03/10/programmatically-working-with-the-moduser-object/ [ed. note: sottwell last edited this post 14 years, 3 months ago.]