Hi,
I've been using Atahualpa for a long time but never had to post something in the forum as I always find what I'm looking for here..

What I want to do in my new web site is to automatically create a new widget area for every user that subscribes to it and name it after his/her id and last name (example: 2 Smith).

I can get the user info with this piece of code:

php global $current_user;
get_currentuserinfo();

echo 'Username: ' . $current_user->user_login . "\n";
echo 'User email: ' . $current_user->user_email . "\n";
echo 'User level: ' . $current_user->user_level . "\n";
echo 'User first name: ' . $current_user->user_firstname . "\n";
echo 'User last name: ' . $current_user->user_lastname . "\n";
echo 'User display name: ' . $current_user->display_name . "\n";
echo 'User ID: ' . $current_user->ID . "\n";

What I'm looking for is the way to place the data from $current_user->ID and $current_user->user_lastname inside the command (bfa_widget_area('name=My new widget area') for creating the new widget areas.

I'm using Wordpress 3.0.1 and Atahualpa 3.5.3
My php skills are very very limited...

Thanks

I would advise against this even if you found a way to do it. Let's assume you found a way to create the widget area. Then you could potentially have many widget areas showing up in Appearance>Widgets which would eventually get hard to navigate and you would have to populate those widget areas with widgets which would eventually add a lot of overhead on your server causing performance issues.

With that said what is your purpose for creating the new widget areas for each subscriber? Maybe there is a better solution for what you want to accomplish.

Hi Larry and thanks for your reply.

The purpose is to give each subscriber a different update only for him.. A text widget will do just fine..
There will not be many subscribers so I don't worry about server load or having too many widgets.

I couldn't think of a better way to do this. I'm open to any ideas or suggestions you may have.

Thanks

I'm not sure what you want to put in the update, but why not put some code in a text widget and tie off the user that is logged in - you will need the exec-php widget or another widget like that but you could use something like this

<?php global $current_user;
get_currentuserinfo();
$who_is_user = $current_user->user_login;
if (!$who_is_user) {
  echo "Hey, if you login, we can offer more info!";}
else { 
  echo 'Welcome back, ' . $who_is_user . "\n";}
?>

Hi juggledad. Thanks for taking the time to reply.

Here's an example of what i want to do:

Let's say that you and Larry are my subscribers.
When you log in you can both see the posts in my blog but i also have a picture that is only for you to see and another picture that is only for Larry.
I want to put this pictures in the sidebar using text widgets but I don't want Larry to see your picture or you to see Larry's.

Thanks

<?php global $current_user;
get_currentuserinfo();
$who_is_user = $current_user->user_login;

if ($who_is_user = 'admin') 
  echo '<img src="http://yourdomain.com/wp-content/uploads/juggledad.jpg"  />' ;
elseif ($who_is_user = 'Larry')  
  echo '<img src="http://yourdomain.com/wp-content/uploads/larry.jpg"  />' ;
else 
  echo "Hey, if you login, we can offer more info!";
?>

you could even try this

<?php global $current_user;
get_currentuserinfo();
$who_is_user = $current_user->user_login;

if ($who_is_user) 
  echo '<img src="http://yourdomain.com/wp-content/uploads/".$who_is_user.".jpg"  />' ;

else 
  echo "Hey, if you login, we can offer more info!";
?>

then you would just have to have an image with the title of the users name.jpg

Or perhaps you could use a membership plugin such as s2Member to restrict access to certain areas.

I have tried s2Member but ended up using MemberWingX instead.
juggledad thanks for the above codes. This is a way of doing what I want but i will have to edit the code each time i have a new subscriber. I will try to automate the proccess by trying to create widget areas for each user.

Thanks

Try my second idea, one widget, you just have to add an iimage for each user