Check a player's rank, and chain

Garry's Mod coding
#1

I want to check if a player is for example a Donator, now if there is another group Donator 2. I want it to check the chain, so if donator 2 is higher than donator I want donator 2 to also have permission, for example:

Does ply:IsUserGroup do this?



if ply:IsUserGroup( "Donator" ) then
    --Donator + Higher rank like (Donator2, Admin, Superadmin etc.)
end

So I don’t have to do:



if ply:IsUserGroup( "Donator" ) or ply:IsUserGroup( "Donator2" ) then
    --Do stuff
end

I want donator and any other groups higher above the chain to also have access.

#2

You could set up a system similar to assmod.

Assign levels for each rank.

admin - 3
donator - 2
user - 1

And then just do if ply:GetLevel() > 2 then etc.

#3

I would make a meta function with it doing the if then statements on all the user groups you want and then just call that function whenever you need it.

Example:

[lua]
–The meta function
local meta = FindMetaTable(“Player”)

function meta:IsDonorAndUp()
if self:IsUserGroup(“donator”) or self:IsUserGroup(“donator2”) or self:IsUserGroup(“admin”) then
return true
else
return false
end
end

–Example of it in use

function GM:PlayerSpawn(ply)
if ply:IsDonorAndUp()
then ply:SetHealth(125)
end
end
[/lua]

#4

Thank you for your reply though I didn’t really want to do something like that. Reason being I want to let the user specify what groups they want to have access.

[editline]8th June 2013[/editline]

For the user that gave my reply a dumb “brandonj4”, I don’t want people having to go into the main lua file and change this themselves, that is hard code and very annoying.