Question

I’m trying to retrieve the access level (admin/member/guest) for the currently logged in user and depending on this, show them specific content on my page. I’m trying to test this with echos right now but still cannot get anything to print out. Could anyone give any advice?

if(isset($_SESSION['username'])){

    global $con;
    $q = "SELECT access FROM users WHERE username = '$username' ";
    $result = mysql_query($q, $con);

    if($result == 'guest')
    {
        echo "You are a guest";// SHOW GUEST CONTENT
    }
    elseif($result == 'member')
    {
       echo "You are a member"; // SHOW OTHER CONTENT
    }
    elseif($result == 'admin')
    {
        echo "You are an admin";// SHOW ADMIN CONTENT
    }

}

Answer 1

$result is a mysql resource. you need

if(isset($_SESSION['username'])){

    global $con;
    $q = "SELECT access FROM users WHERE username = '$username' LIMIT 1";
    $result = mysql_query($q, $con);
    $row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result);

    $access = $row['access'];

    if($access == 'guest')
    {
        echo "You are a guest";// SHOW GUEST CONTENT
    }
    elseif($access == 'member')
    {
       echo "You are a member"; // SHOW OTHER CONTENT
    }
    elseif($access == 'admin')
    {
        echo "You are an admin";// SHOW ADMIN CONTENT
    }

}