smarty questions

[IntoRain]

Sorry! It's $mysidia->user->getgroup()! Which will return one of the groups available in your database (rootadmins, admins,registered,artists,banned,visitors).

Messages is an array containing multiple message objects, that's why I use foreach there, it goes through every "item" in the messages variable. Each Message contains a title, content, date, etc... To get just the number of new messages:

$messages = $mysidia->db->select("messages", array(), "touser='{$mysidia->user->username}' and status='unread'")->rowCount();
$this->assign("messages",$messages);