Question

I’m working in Drupal 6 with CCK. Under each text field there is a PHP section where you can run some PHP code to get allowed values. I’m running into trouble using an “if” statement to change the allowed values based on user type

So to start, I do a query to determine current users user type. -1 is default user, which is employees and user type id “1”, is for site users. What I want is to restrict the site user to only the allowed values they need to see, while allowing employees to edit that value when on the node edit screen with all choices.

The first part of the if statement works. However, the “else” part doesn’t work. Is this field set up to deal with control structures?

global $user;
$sql1 = "SELECT user_type_id FROM user_types_user WHERE uid = ".$user->uid." ";
$res1 = db_query($sql1);
if($res1 == '1'){
$sql = "SELECT account FROM users WHERE uid = ".$user->uid." ";
$res = db_query($sql);
while($row = db_fetch_array($res)){
$rows[] = $row['account'];
}
$rows = drupal_map_assoc($rows);
return $rows;
}
else {
$sql2 = "SELECT title FROM node WHERE type = 'accounts' ";
$res2 = db_query($sql2);
while($row2 = db_fetch_array($res2)){
$rows2[] = $row2['title'];
}
$rows2 = drupal_map_assoc($rows2);
return $rows2;
}

The choices are type=accounts in nodes, however, when a user is created one of the choices is selected and stored in the user table, under a column I created named “account”

Answer 1

If by ‘the “else part does not work’ you mean that it is never executed, even if user_type_id does not equal 1, it might be the missing db_fetch_array() on $res1. You’re comparing your result object directly to the string '1', not the field value.