Kevin,

Great plugin!  Thanks for the hard work!  I'm a former Michigander, so I'm glad to see "the mitten" pumping out some good stuff and not just more junk on 4 wheels.

I have created a plugin for my site that clears the Dashboard for all users and will (with your help) display different things based on the user's RS-defined role.

It's a lacrosse team's website, so RS-defined roles are Player, Captain, and Coach.  The public will fall into the default WP-defined Subscriber category.

2 things I'd like to accomplish:

-  Display different information on the dashboard based on the user's WP or RS defined role.  I'm fairly certain the hooks exist in RS to do this, I just can't figure out how.

- (long-shot request) Allow the user, during registration, to request membership in a given RS-defined group.

Thanks again.  I look forward to your response.

- Dave

Since the developer doc is currently nonexistant, let me also mention the properties of $current_user which may be helpful to you:

var $groups = array(); 		// $groups[group id] = 1
var $blog_roles = array(); 	// $blog_roles[role_handle] = 1
var $term_roles = array();	// $term_roles[taxonomy][role_handle] = array of term ids 
var $assigned_blog_roles = array(); // $assigned_blog_roles[role_handle] = 1
var $assigned_term_roles = array(); // $assigned_term_roles[taxonomy][role_handle] = array of term ids 

So you could do something like:

global $current_user;
$required_group_id = 4;
if ( ! empty( $current_user->groups[$required_group_id] ) )
  // display special group stuff

Kevin said:

uscmenslax said:

- (long-shot request) Allow the user, during registration, to request membership in a given RS-defined group.

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Good idea. Next week I'll poke around and see what kind of work that would involve.

After further consideration, I'm not going to pursue that feature. Role Scoper groups are normally a way for administrators to grant permissions to users, not for users to pick and choose from available content. What you're asking is for Role Scoper groups to work more like Organic Groups in Drupal. That would lead to a whole new class of functionality that may be better handled in a separate plugin. Even if I decided to go in that direction, I would need to do some very careful UI design to make sure admins understand what they're enabling users to do at registration.