Joomla’s been driving me crazy lately, I’m sticking this code here for future reference so I can find it again, and in case someone else needs it for whatever reason. Use this to grab the K2 user group that a user is in with a Joomla install (works for 1.5, not sure about older/newer versions).
Enjoy!
$user =& JFactory::getUser(); //name of K2 user table $k2usertable = 'nua_k2_users'; $userId = $user->get('id'); // get user Group $db =& JFactory::getDBO(); $query = " SELECT ".$db->nameQuote('group')." FROM ".$db->nameQuote($k2usertable)." WHERE ".$db->nameQuote('userID')." = ".$db->quote($userId)."; "; $db->setQuery($query); $userGroup = $db->loadResult(); //the user group's id echo $userGroup;
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