Hi touring,

there's a difference between Joomla groups ($user->usertype) and VirtueMart shopper groups.

Luckily with JomGenius it's easy to get hold of the shopper group, though you have to specify it by group id number rather than name.

Do it like this:

$vm = JomGenius("virtuemart");
if ($vm->check("shopper_group = 5")) return XXX;
// replace "5" with the id of the group you want to detect
// replace XXX with the module id of the module you want to show to them.


Is that what you're after? There seems to be something in VM that's called "shopper groups" which I describe above, but there's also something else called "user groups" which has a type called "shopper", and I don't know how to get at that value at the moment.

If you're using the 2nd type ("user groups") then can you describe a bit more about how you are using these? e.g. how do you assign people to a particular group? Manually? And does that then change what they can do or see in the store?

Cheers,
Stephen