Hello all,
I need to add another variable to the $message['member'] array. This will either be a 0 or 1 based on a query to another table to check for a custom status for each user. Could someone point me in the right direction as to where I can find it? I can't seem to locate where the array is being populated.
Thanks!
It's populated by $memberContext, which in turn is populated by loadMemberContext() in Load.php, which in turn itself is populated by loadMemberData() also in Load.php.
Changing it is not a good idea without a serious amount of due care and caution. What do you need to add?
We've got a feature that allows users to donate the site for certain perks and are looking for a way to highlight these users. That data is stored in a non-SFM table.
Another option would be to add them to a new membergroup. I'm thinking that this may be a better approach as I could simply customize the template and not make any core SMF modifications. Thoughts?
That would certainly be easier... or even use paid subscriptions to automate it ;)
Quick follow up...
I've created our new membergroup and have updated the template to show our "flair" for these users. This is working well for normal users but I also have a few Administrators who need to be in this usergroup. When I add the new group as an additional group, I don't see any mention of it in the $message['member'] array. Only Primary group is listed there. Any suggestions on how to handle this?
Additional groups do not get loaded for the topic display, there's no reason for them to be because there's no ability to display them anyway.
And it's not a simple table join because additional groups are stored as a text column in the members table with commas between the groups which can't be converted to a table join >_<
Although there are MODs to do that, currently none in our modsite IIRC.
https://github.com/MissAllSunday/showCustomMembergroups
(and probably others out there)