On the front page of a forum, how can I set something up so that it only shows if you are logged in? For example, a message shows up if you are unregistered or not logged in, and goes away when you are logged in.....what if I wanted something the other way around?

Well, here's how I do that ... I'm pretty sure all PHP freaks will know of a better way, but anyway :

When you want to display a login option for not logged in users which returns to the same page afterwards, you should add that stuff to the header of your page :

Keep in mind that this only works when the page you call glboal.php from is in the same directory as the global.php itself ... if not, you should just do a chmod (like 'chdir("/paths/to/your/frums");' ... just don't forget to jump back to the initial directory after you included the global.php then!

Like I said at the beginning, there might be thousands ways to do that better ... but hey, it works :)

Best regards,

Bobbi

Well for unregistered users, there is a a variable called $unregwelcomemessage in the forumhome template. There is also a template called forumhome_unregmessage. What about setting something up in that matter, basically the same exact thing, just rather than unregmessage, a new one called like loggedin_message or something?

In index.php replace this:
with
Now delete $unregwelcomemessage from your forumhome template and place $welcomemessage instead.
Also create a template named forumhome_regmessage and use it for messages for logged in users.

Thanks, that worked perfectly. You made a little mistake in your code for anybody that would like to use this. You did this:

It should actually be:

You forgot the { after else, otherwise it gives a parse error.

Thanks again

Damn brackets... :rolleyes: