I have modified editbasic.tpl to remove the option for members to pick what group icons are displayed. I have 4 levels of paid service and of course admin and moderator icons to display. I figured out by using a test user how to force the group images I want, for example:


Will set all users in group 8 (Bronze in my system) to display the bronze group icon (a bronze star).

what I don't understand, but want to, is how to interpret what gets set in USER_GROUP_IMAGES field since I did not study latin

For example:

a:1:{i:0;s:1:"9";} will set a member to silver (group 9)

but

a:1:{i:0;s:2:"10";} will set a member to gold. One has s:1 and the other s:2

Then, if I have a moderator who is also a silver member, it would be:

a:2:{i:0;s:1:"3";i:1;s:1:"9";}
but if he is a gold member it is:

a:2:{i:0;s:1:"3";i:1;s:2:"10";} (again, note s:1 versus s:2??)

Can someone explain how to interpret the different parts of this group image code?

Thanks.

That is an example of PHP Serialize. I only read up on it a little to answer your previous question, so I don't know much about it yet so I probably wouldn't do it justice trying to explain it. The link above will lead you to some links in Google that you can peruse, if you like, whilst you wait for a more edumacated person to chime in.

a -- array
a:1 -- array with 1 element (ie: they are in one group)
a:2 -- array with 2 elements (ie: they are in 2 groups, moderator and another group)

s -- string
s:1 -- string with 1 character (ie: 9)
s:2 -- string with 2 characters (ie: 10)

; -- delimeter between array elements

i:0 -- array index 0
i:1 -- array index 1

THANKS! That makes perfect sense!