RE: [Slashcode-general] re: subscriber access

[Chad D. <cd...@at...>]

Meant to use the nickname.. I suppose I could tack some sort of numerical
suffix onto the UID instead of the nickname.. either way, I'd need a chunk
of code similar to what I'm doing below to be able to work.

Thanks,
Chad

-----Original Message-----
From: Geekster [mailto:gee...@gm...]
Sent: Saturday, October 02, 2004 10:07 AM
To: Chad Day
Subject: Re: [Slashcode-general] re: subscriber access


Greetings,
I'm curious if you meant to use the nickname or a UID? Numeric user
reference is much better than text because it's faster and unique.

Scott


On Fri, 1 Oct 2004 14:51:43 -0400, Chad Day <cd...@at...> wrote:
> >The interesting thing is that we were thinking that we could code up a
> >task that would add/remove acl's to users based on X/Y/Z (one of those
> >criteria being whether someone was a paid subscriber).
>
> Fortunately for me, all the subscribers are imported into the DB.
> Non-subscribers, who sign up through slash, I modify their username to tag
> them as a non-subscriber (also to make sure new subscribers have their
> userid available to them).
>
> Now, that being said, wouldn't it be possible to do something like this in
> article.pl?  (top of file)
>
>         if (!($user->{author} or $user->{is_admin}) and
> !$slashdb->checkStoryViewable($form->{sid})) {
>                 $story = '';
>         } else {
>                    # check the user nickname, if the user is a
nonsubscriber, don't let
> them see the story
>                if (substr($user->{nickname}, -2) == "_mc") {
>                        $story = '';
>                } else {
>                         $story = $slashdb->getStory($form->{sid});
>                }
>         }
>
> I mean, it appears not, obviously I wouldn't be writing this e-mail if
that
> worked.  No users are able to view the story if I leave the code like
that.
> I'm a PHP guy, not a perl guy, so I'm not exactly sure why that isn't
> working but I'm guessing it's pretty simple or I'm trying to do something
> that's not possible considering how the project is constructed.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
> Chad
>
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