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Hi! I’m trying to grant access to content based on a user’s member group using php. Is there a better way to access it in php than {member_group}? I’ve been able to pull out custom field data in php, but the {member_group} variable gives me problems. If I do this:

<?php 
    $memberGroup = "{member_group}";
    echo $memberGroup;
?>

I get the member group out in a string form. Its funny though because the string length is 14 characters and $memberGroup[0]=”{" and $memberGroup[1]="m" and $memberGroup[2]="e" and so until you get {member_group}. If you actually display all $memberGroup[0] to $memberGroup[13] in a row you get out the member group in string form again. It seems what EE is doing with it is a postprocessor replace on the string {member_group}. I just want the integer value. Is there an easy way to get an integer?

Thanks!

Are you using PHP on Input or Output? That said,

<?=$this->EE->session->userdata['group_id'];?>

might be even easier.

That’s it. Thanks!

Glad to see that helped. Post again as needed, please.