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kalamata
What does the level attribute in xoops_users table represent?

  • 2006/12/12 11:29

  • kalamata

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Dear All,

I am not very clear about what the level attribute in the xoops_user table represents and where it is used. I had a look at the XOOPS documentation and run a search on the site, but no luck.

Could anybody please help?

Thanks,
George
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zyspec
Re: What does the level attribute in xoops_users table represent?

  • 2006/12/12 13:23

  • zyspec

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  • Since: 2004/9/21


'level' is used to tell whether a user has been activated (>0) or inactive (0).
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kalamata
Re: What does the level attribute in xoops_users table represent?

  • 2006/12/12 15:13

  • kalamata

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Some of my users have their level attribute set to 5 or 2. What would these values represent?

Thanks,
George
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Dave_L
Re: What does the level attribute in xoops_users table represent?

  • 2006/12/12 16:11

  • Dave_L

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1 = activated
 0 = not activated
-1 = disabled


I don't think other values have any significance, although as zyspec said, the usual check for an activated user is "level > 0".
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kalamata
Re: What does the level attribute in xoops_users table represent?

  • 2006/12/13 13:05

  • kalamata

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Is that documented somewhere? What code should I look at to check these values? Surely, users can not have level values assigned randomly to them as long as they are not zero or minus one.

George
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Dave_L
Re: What does the level attribute in xoops_users table represent?

  • 2006/12/13 13:32

  • Dave_L

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  • Since: 2003/11/7


I don't think it's documented anywhere.

My very first post at xoops.org, over three years ago, asked about this same issue: https://xoops.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=13571
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Mithrandir
Re: What does the level attribute in xoops_users table represent?

the -1 = disabled is - so far - a XOOPS 2.2-only level.

Apart from that, you should only worry about 0 (not activated) and >0 (activated). Level 5 is given to the user created through the setup process, but is effectively the same as level 1.

My guess is that it is a leftover from earlier days, when the group permissions were not as good as they are today and we needed a way to specify an administrator specifically on the user profile.
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