[pmwiki-devel] Displaying a user's groups

[marc]

Patrick R. Michaud said...
> On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 03:21:39PM -0500, Rodney Morris wrote:
> > Hello!
> > 
> > I'm relatively new to pmWiki, but I'm already hooked.  I've run into a
> > bit of a wall while designing my wiki page and I was hoping someone
> > with more experience might be able to help.  I checked the archives
> > and did some poking around in pmwiki.php and authuser.php
> > 
> > I'd like to display a user's security group while they're logged in,
> > pulled from groups defined in my .htgroup file.
> > 
> > For example, on a menu at the top of the page, I included the
> > following "welcome message":
> > 
> > * Welcome, {$Author}!
> > 
> > Is there something similar I could do to show what groups they are in?
> >  For example:
> > 
> > * You are in the {$Groups} usergroups.
> > 
> > The display would be something like:
> > 
> > You are in the Admins Users Authors Editors usergroups.
> > 
> > Is there a solution to this one?
> 
> We should probably come up with a {$AuthGroups} page variable
> that would display this information.

Yup, that'd be useful.

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Best,
Marc