Re: Joining users to another table

On 18/05/2005, at 9:56 AM, Lukas Smith wrote:
>
> What you would need to do is have a look at
>
> PEAR/LiveUser/Perm/Storage/Globals.php
>
> this file defines the entire permission structure. also keep in mind 
> that users are unique identified by their id in the perm container and 
> not by their id in the auth container (as there can be multiple auth 
> containers using the same auth id naming scheme). therefore you want 
> to create the relation on perm_user_id. i hope the file itself is 
> somewhat self explaining.
>
> This is all quite new territory but you have the following options.
>
> 1)
>
> include LiveUser/Perm/Storage/Globals.php;
> and modify the arrays at runtime
> $GLOBALS['_LiveUser']['perm']['tables']
> $GLOBALS['_LiveUser']['perm']['fields']
> $GLOBALS['_LiveUser']['perm']['alias']
>
> 2)
>
> modify the LiveUser/Perm/Storage/Globals.php in your pear directory, 
> or stick a modified version into an include path that is checked 
> before your pear path
>
> 3)
>
> pass in the necessary arrays as permission container parameters. these 
> arrays will be merged with the default 
> LiveUser/Perm/Storage/Globals.php arrays.
>
>         'permContainer' => array(
>             'type'  => 'Complex',
>             'storage' => array(
>                 $perm => array(
>                     'connection' => $db,
>                     'dsn' => $dsn,
>                     'prefix' => 'liveuser_',
>                     'tables' => array(),
>                     'fields' => array(),
>                     'alias' => array(),
>                 ),
>             ),
>         ),
>
>

Uhh a little bit confusing but this is just global config settings ?  I 
need to collect data from the customer directory once the customer is 
logged in, would would have to either search for the record with their 
userID or the customerID.