Player:CheckGroup()

[Neku]

So I was thinking of using this to verify if a player inherits from a group along the way.

Like, say I did:

Code: Lua

1. ply:CheckGroup( "user" ) -- Assume ply is set to an actual player.

Say the player is a superadmin. Would they have membership in the group user?

And another question, what does this function return? I don't really understand what is being returned in the ULib documentation.

A boolean stating whether they have membership in the group or not.

[Decicus]

"user" is basically the global group and if I remember right, all groups somehow inherit from "user".

Also, it returns either true or false. True if the player is part of the group (or a group that inherits directly/indirectly from the group), false if not at all.

As stated in the docs: It's basically IsUserGroup, but also checks for the inheritance tree.

[JamminR]

What Decicus' says; phrased differently;
In Gmod, IsUserGroup("user") will be false if the player is superadmin.
With Ulib, CheckGroup("user") will be true if player is superadmin.

More Ulib inheritance functions/checking described here - http://ulyssesmod.net/docs/files/lua/ulib/shared/sh_ucl-lua.html

[Helix757]

So basically instead of doing
ply:IsUserGroup("user") or and keep continuing for all the groups, you want something that uses the inheritance tree? If so I agree. It would be quite useful. Although I don't know if you can do this with ulib.

[Decicus]

So basically instead of doing
ply:IsUserGroup("user") or and keep continuing for all the groups, you want something that uses the inheritance tree? If so I agree. It would be quite useful. Although I don't know if you can do this with ulib.

You can, it's right here in the ULib documentation.