Arrowchat pull phpBB Usergroup

[thesr5]

Wondering if anyone has attempted this and if i should even try. Trying to make user group specific chat rooms. Currently on my site there are areas just for certain groups by using the <!-- IF S_GROUP_ID# --> (for html templates) but im wondering if something like this would work for arrowchat as it integrates with PHPBB already to grab the username, avatar, user profile, etc. if it would be possible for it to grab the user groups as well?

[Jason]

I've made this modification before, it was actually very simple but does require PHP/JavaScript knowledge. Basically, I just grabbed the user's group ID with a simple MySQL statement and then passed in as a variable to the JavaScript in the external.php file.

Restricting chat rooms would be even easier though. It's as simple as checking for their group ID in the includes/json/receive/receive_chatroom_room.php and then spitting back an error response if they are not able to join it.

[thesr5]

Do you happen to still have this code laying around?

as you have successfully made this work in the past it would eliminate my trial an error on a functional install of my site haha.

[Jason]

You won't be able to do this untill you purchase the full version since the code is encrypted on the trial.

[thesr5]

Aww thats right, IonCube

[thesr5]

So i purchased a License last night and im now legit, is there anyway you could help implement this feature?

[thesr5]

Jason would you be able to help me get this feature working for PHPBB?

[Jason]

Jason would you be able to help me get this feature working for PHPBB?

Theres not a whole lot more to say, the first post describes what you need to do pretty well. Do you have any questions?

[thesr5]

Yeah, not 100% sure on how to make this work between PHP and java as you describe, I do have this"

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   // Check what group a user is in
       if ( !function_exists('group_memberships') )
       {
          include_once($phpbb_root_path . 'includes/functions_user.'.$phpEx);
       }

       $groups = group_memberships(false,$user->data['user_id']);
       foreach ($groups as $grouprec)
       {
          $template->assign_vars(array(
             'S_GROUP_' . $grouprec['group_id'] => true
          ));
       }

Which is what i used in my PHPBB functions file to specify if a group is to see a specific link or part of a page. But not show on how i would make this work in ArrowChat.

[thesr5]

Been fumbling with this the past few weeks, still unsure how to make this feature work.

[jaden]

Please update if/when you do.

[thesr5]

I've made absolutely no progress on this. Pretty much gave up on it.

[psaratscheff]

It was a nice way to make you buy it and then realize you can't get done what you want haha.

[Jason]

New guide for this here: viewtopic.php?f=16&t=1651

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