SOLVED: Superadministrator check STILL failing !

[zupidupi]

Hiya, I'm having the same problem as a few other posters in this thread. The call $my->usertype simply doesn't return anything. I'm using Joomla 1.0.13 and FF 1.4.7. Any comments would be greatly appreciated.

   Mike

[boldee]

try using my->id if you want to to find the super admin, super admin will always have an id of 62

[zupidupi]

Thx, boldee, for the tip. I did, and got the answer 0, checked like this (I've done some fiddling around in the code since I didn't get the ff_getPageByName-call to work, either).

I'e done a bit of coding, so I understand well what we're after here, but a php-environment is somewhat new to me (I know perl, though) and this is my first hack under the Joomla-hood. So, any suggestions/answers can be fairly technical!

// declare our variables and set exists to 0
global $my, $exists;
$exists = 0;

//look through the tables to see if mos_tbd_tags is in the Mambo database.

$dataset = mysql_query('SHOW TABLES') ;

while ($row = mysql_fetch_row($dataset)) {
   if ( $row[0] == "jos_tbd_tags" ) {
      $exists = 1;
      break;
   }
}
// if it exists got to page 1

if ($exists == 1) {
//   $this->page = ff_getPageByName('ftb_intro');
   $this->page = 1;
// if it does not exist send the form to the correct page for user type
} else {
   if ($my->usertype == "Super Administrator") {
//      $this->page = ff_getPageByName('ftb_ctable');
   $this->page = 2;
   } else {
//      $this->page = ff_getPageByName('ftb_ntable');
echo "$my->id: ".$my->id;
   $this->page = 3;
   }
}

[zupidupi]

Aw, BS, I did one final test and solved the problem. I had consistently tested under the admin-interface, not in the main window/homepage. Obviously the $my-variable isn't defined in the admin-interface. Silly problem, silly solution. And now I'm a bit wiser.

   Mike

[boldee]

Hi Mike
Hehe always the way lol but as long as you learnt somthing while writting the code it was worth while.