Okay. What I need you to do is to add a line to the beginning of sub html_home. Put this within a print qq statement.

Membership status = -- $fmem --

The log on with a userid that is set at "Full member." (I reset the status of the user "fullmem" back to "Full member.")

You should see

Membership status = -- 1 --

on the home page.

Then log in with the "mem" userid. You should get

Membership status = -- --

Let me know if one or the other of those doesn't work.

I'm sorry about being testy before. I get really frustrated when I can't figure out what's wrong and sometimes I take it out on other people. My apologies.



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JPD

JPDeni,

I've added in the Membership status = -- $fmem -- .

when logging in with "fullmem", it shows a 1,
when logging in with "mem", it shows a 0

That is wonderful news!!!! It works!!!

Now, why isn't it working when you're printing things out? It may be looking at the "0" as a string instead of a number. Hmmmmmmm.

Instead of the

if ($fmem) {

lines, try

if ($fmem eq "1") {



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JPD

i use it on the short display ...

if ($fmem eq "1") {

print "<td><$font><b>Email</b></td></font>";
}

it doesnt appear even login FUll memember or admin

Logging in with mem

!$fmem
unless $fmem
$fmem == 0
$fmem eq "0"

Membership status = -- 0 --

Hi mem, welcome to Web-Friends Profile Database.

Logging in with fullmem

$fmem
$fmem == 1
$fmem eq "1"
Membership status = -- 1 --
Hi fullmem, welcome to Web-Friends Profile Database.

Now I'm really confused.

All of them work on the html_home page, but it appears that none of them work in html_record.

You can take out the debugging lines. They did their job.

Okay. Just to be sure I know what's going on (or at least so I can pretend I do ), when you used


it showed everything to everybody, even those without "full member" status.

When you used


it didn't show those fields to anybody, even those with "full member" status.

Try adding the first debugging line I gave you --


right after


(It'll mess up your table, but it won't be there for long.)

That will let us know if the $fmem is still around when the record is printed.



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JPD

I've mod it, u wanan go and have a look?

http://www.it-g.com/cgi-bin/friendsdb/db.cgi

Okay, then, this means that the problem is not with the $fmem variable, but the way it's being used.

I still think you should be able to use


I don't know why that isn't working.

Could you put your most recent html.pl file on your site for me to look at? Thanks!


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JPD

Okay. Now we're going to have to do some real searching to figure out how the variable is being interpreted.

Add the following to html_home, but *not* within a print statement:


Log on with both types of memberships and make note of which ones (if any) show up in each case.

These are the only things I know of that can test the variable.

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JPD

no problem.

http://www.it-g.com/htmlpl.txt

I looked over your file and found a couple of html errors. I fixed them and sent you the file. I'll look it over some more to see if I can find anything.


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JPD

Hi carol, wonder if u notice it.

I try this..
if ($fmem) { print qq| abcdefg <a href="mailto:$rec{'E-mail'}">$rec{'E-mail'}</a>|;
}

and when i log in as "mem" nothing is shown. But when i log in as "fullmem" the abcdefg is show, but not the email.

I'm starting to wonder if you might have some problems in the way your .db file is set up. I know it's a pain, but you might try starting again with a blank .db file and adding some records.


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JPD

u mean the default.db?

Yep. I have a suspicion that your fields are off somewhere -- that one or more records has more or less fields than others.


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JPD

I think i will need ur help....

would u wanna take a look at the default.cfg?

www.it-g.com.defaultcfg.txt

ok..I've change it to numer.

i still see the email when logging in with mem.

Did you also make all the other changes? Did you start over with a blank database?


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JPD

I see the following in your .cfg file:


I'm not sure what you want to do here, but this is definitely incorrect.

If you want the "LoginID" to hold the user id so users can "own" records, you need to set


In your field definitions, you need to change all of the places where you have "number" to "numer."

After you make these changes, start over with a blank database and see if the modifications work.


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JPD

yup..change whatever should be change.

Please add some records to the database now, as well as some user ids which have different permissions. I can't test it until you do.


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JPD

i've add in mem and full

We need to start over from scratch. There's a problem with the full membership permission somewhere.

Take out everything I gave you regarding the full membership modification. And let's start a new thread to discuss this. This one's getting too long.


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JPD

i agree..hehehe