How to check on question view page if post is by logged in user?

Question

Does anybody know how ro check in custom theme if the actual post is by the actual logged in user ?

I have:

 

$userid=qa_get_logged_in_userid();

$cookieid=qa_cookie_get();

 

$rules['isbyuser']=qa_post_is_by_user($post, $userid, $cookieid);

 

but I do not have $post .

 

Besides i am sure that there is an easier way...

 

Any help is welcome

Answer 1

OK, that worked:

 

 

$mypostuserid = qa_db_query_sub("SELECT userid FROM ^posts WHERE type = 'Q' and postid = $mypostid");

$myfinalpostuserid = qa_db_read_one_value($mypostuserid,true);

 

$myfinalpostuserid is the userid of the post author and i can compare it to the logged in userid

Answer 2

Check $this->content['q_view']['raw']['userid']

Comments

Hi gidgreen, is the way that I proposed "correct" in your point of view? http://www.question2answer.org/qa/15565/how-to-check-on-question-view-page-if-post-is-by-logged-in-user?show=19216#a19216

Answer 3

update: use the proposed code of gidgreen (shorter and better):

$isbyuser = qa_post_is_by_user($this->content['q_view']['raw'], qa_get_logged_in_userid(), qa_cookie_get());

if($isbyuser) { ...  }

 

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if you can rely only on cookies, you can use that:

// works for anonymous
$cookieid_poster = $this->content['q_view']['raw']['cookieid'];
$cookieid_user = qa_cookie_get();

// works for logged in users
$useridReader = qa_get_logged_in_userid();
$useridPoster = $this->content['q_view']['raw']['userid'];

if( ( $cookieid_poster == $cookieid_user ) || ($useridReader == $useridPoster) ) {
   ...
}

Comments

You're part of the way. The right answer is:

qa_post_is_by_user($this->content['q_view']['raw'], qa_get_logged_in_userid(), qa_cookie_get());

See the source for qa_post_is_by_user(...) for the logic.

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doing the first implementation, I tried that, but could not understand why I have to throw the entire raw-post. So I skipped this and did the code above.

I actually don't understand 100% how the code of qa_post_is_by_user() is working. If I see right, it is doing the same that I am doing in the code above?

if (@$post['userid'] || $userid)
    return @$post['userid']==$userid;
elseif (@$post['cookieid'])
    return strcmp($post['cookieid'], $cookieid)==0;
return false;

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@gidgreen: Yes, I am using your method now as it detects better. Thanks for that!