Custom Link when logged in

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Paulp Reply #1, 18 years, 1 month ago

Hi All.

I have got the WebLoginPE working great, and my only problem is that I want to display a link to the member page in the page header if a person is logged in and hide the login link.

These links are in the header area of the template and coded as follows:

      <li><a href="#">Home</a></li>
      <li><a href="[~4~]">Login</a></li>
      <li><a href="#">Privacy Policy</a></li> 
      <li class="last">[!AjaxSearch? &ajaxSearch=`0`&AS_showResults=`0`&AS_landing=`5`!]</li>

So is it possible to have it display the following if the user is logged in

 <li><a href="#">Home</a></li>
     <li><a href="index.php?id=48">Members Area</a></li>
      <li><a href="#">Privacy Policy</a></li> 
      <li class="last">[!AjaxSearch? &ajaxSearch=`0`&AS_showResults=`0`&AS_landing=`5`!]</li>

Thanks for any help in advance.

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breezer Reply #2, 18 years, 1 month ago

Make the following code into a snippet and replace the menu in the template with the snippet call uncached:

[!LoginLinkMenu!] or whatever you want to name it

<?php
/* Login Link snippet */
// if user is logged in
$logged_in_ID ='48';
$logged_in_text ='Members Area';

// otherwise general public
$login_page_ID ='4';
$login_text ='Login';

$output ='';

if(isset($_SESSION['webShortname'])){
  $loginlink = $logged_in_ID;
  $logintext = $logged_in_text;
}else{
  $loginlink = $login_page_ID;
  $logintext = $login_text;
}

$output .='
<li><a href="#">Home</a></li>
<li><a href="[~'.$loginlink.'~]">'.$logintext.'</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Privacy Policy</a></li>
<li class="last">[!AjaxSearch? &ajaxSearch=`0`&AS_showResults=`0`&AS_landing=`5`!]</li>';

return $output;
?>

you may have to fiddle around with this because of the ajaxsearch but this is the basic way to achieve what you want.

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BobRay Reply #3, 18 years, 1 month ago

All you have to do is put your two examples in separate chunks called:

LoggedOnChunk and NotLoggedOnChunk.

Then, where you want the output, put a call to the Personalize snippet with the names of those two chunks as parameters.

[!Personalize? &yesChunk=`LoggedInChunk` &noChunk=`NotLoggedInChunk` &ph=`user`!]

Logged in users will see one, not-logged-in users will see the other. There’s even a placeholder so you can say "Hello [+user+]" to a logged-in user.

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Paulp Reply #4, 18 years, 1 month ago

Thanks,

I used the 2nd suggestion because it was simpler as the client may need to alter the nav in the future, so the simpler the better.

The only issue was the ajax search broke so I just put that in back into the template file under the call and all is well grin