Hi Derek,

so are you wanting to show specific modules to people in your AEC group, and either an alternative or nothing to anyone who is not in that group?

I just had a look at the AEC entry in the JED, and it appears that it uses the built-in user groups in Joomla, or can use JACL or others.

So I think that the answer to your question may depend on what underlying system is being used to provide the groups. Do you know what that is? Or perhaps AEC has its own groups... I couldn't tell from the JED description.

If AEC has its own implementation of groups, then I'd need to be able to look at it more closely in order to provide a recipe for it. Perhaps in that case you might be able to provide me  some admin access into your site, or send me a copy of AEC to work with? (that's allowed, since AEC is GPL you are allowed to share it).

Best regards,
Stephen

just some more info,

// show a notice to anyone logged in who is not in the "Author" group
if ( MM_LOGGED_IN && MM_NOT_USER_AUTHOR ) return 53;

or.. ( MM_LOGGED_IN && MM_NOT_USER_AUTHOR )
or.. if ( MM_NOT_USER_AUTHOR ) return 53;
or.. if ( MM_USER_AUTHOR ) return; else return 53;

do not work :[

maybe the only thing I haven't tried is the "$user->groups - Array containing 0 or more of the following: "Public"...." how should one setup an array in metamod for usergroup "Author".

When changing from "ART" -> "VIP" manually I have to manually uncheck "Registered" in Joomla user manager, but not from "VIP" -> "ART", then the user is only "Registered", maybe I shouldn't even have do do that.. :]

yeah I think I don't need to address AEC for this, maybe if our subscriptions get more complex but I have to have this based on two different kinds of Registered users, since the free account has limited features but more then a guest ( and a module saying "Get a VIP account" isn't what we want for guests ), and the VIP one a full feature account :] I don't get why this doesn't work :i

Hi guys - I'm glad that you got this working in J1.7 using the basic logged in / not logged in switch. However I'd be very interested to know if the following approach work for you with AEC/JUGA?

JomGenius has some good detection for normal Joomla user groups. I did some new work on this for Joomla 1.7, so I would like to know if this works for AEC/JUGA as well. I hope so.

To do a basic display of what groups someone is in, you could do this in MetaMod:

$groups = $core_genius->info("groups");
echo "user is in groups: <pre>" . print_r($groups,true)."</pre>";

Could you try that with someone logged in as one of the AEC or JUGA groups, and see if the group name shows up?

If it does, then you can easily control modules by group like this:

// to show someone if someone is in a stated group:
if ($core_genius->check("groups = mygroup1,mygroup2")) return XXX;

// or use this to show if someone is NOT in
// any of the stated groups:
if ($core_genius->check("groups = none of mygroup1, mygroup2")) return XXX;


Hope that helps,
Stephen

Thanks Stephen I can try to get you a superadmin for the dev site and you could try it there it is 1.5 but it does have juga and AEC

I might even decide to use this site to do a migration test to move to 1.7.
Then you could poke around in there if you like Stephen.

I am just trying to book 2 or 3 hours in my schedule to do it tomorrow or Sunday. So you have motivated me now.

Let me know if any of these options are of interest to you ?