How to make access to the response message from the bot in the TG bot, only to those users who are registered in the array?

Question

PHP

Hello.

It is necessary that the function check the username of the person who wrote with the username that is in the list, and if it matches, it returns the answer in the form of this same username

, so I wrote the condition:

case ($text=='Хочу прогноз погоды' and $username == user_access()):
    $ANSWER = shape(2);
    $keyboard = keyboard();
  break;

and a function to search for a name from a pre-prepared list, please tell me what is missing ..

function user_access(){
    $name = array('Имя1', 'Имя2');
if (in_array($username, $name))
  {
  echo $username;
  }
else
  {
  echo "Match not found";
  }
  return $name;
}

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Thanks a lot for the solution: nokimaro , :

case ($text == 'Хочу прогноз погоды' && user_has_access($username)):
    $ANSWER = shape(2);
    $keyboard = keyboard();
break;

function user_has_access($username) {
    return in_array($username, [
        'user1',
        'имя2',   
        'имя3',
        'имя10',
    ]);
}