Phunky

There a few “Whos Online” Plugins kicking about, ive been meaning to make a more useable one for some time.

Ive just checked over my post again, and it wont actual work as it would be checking against as serialized array string.

you would need to unserialize($userRole) and check against the role feild in the array

here’s a quick function i knocked up for you that should return true or false depending if $userRole matches $role that is set.


<?php
function pky_dirtyRoleCheck($id,$role='admin'){
global $wpdb ;
$userRole = $wpdb->get_var("SELECT meta_value FROM $wpdb->usermeta WHERE user_id = '$id' AND meta_key='wp_capabilities'");
if($userRole==$role){
return true;
} else {
return false;
}
}
?>


So just set $id to the current user id and $role to the role you are trying to find!

this will only work on WP2.0 and up!

Please note ive not tested it 😀 just hacked it from my own personal userProfile plugin i use on my sites

The function i wrote only returns the role value, so you would need to echo dirty_get_role(); for my one to print.

Try putting your widget_user_role() as the last widget on your sidebar, if it then displays all the other widgets you know there summat wrong with the widget_user_role() function its self.

Also if its working when not being used as a widget it would seem to suggest you have not written the function correctly, i belive theres a certain way you are supose to write you widgets.

But as i said before, ive not really bothered with widgets so cant really help much on that side of things!

update_usermeta(ID,'META_NAME','META_VALUE');

This is the function i use in all my custom signup forms to allow for extra feilds to be attached to users.

This add’s it to wp_usermeta table instead of wp_users, which i belive is the way WP wanted people to do it

No doubt there is a better way then doing it like this but…


function dirty_get_role($id){
$role = explode('"',$wpdb->get_var("SELECT meta_value FROM wp_usermeta WHERE meta_key = 'wp_capabilities' and user_id = '$id'"));
return $role[1];
}


This is a VERY, dirty way of doing it!

Dont get what your wanting? are you wanting to display a random quote on your page? or a quote from a post??

Quick and Simple way is to use XAMPP