profile field

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Trying to add a hidden extra profile field to my global nav bar so clients can login to their cpanel account. (See link at http://forum.hostareus.com)

Thing is not all customers will have entered their domain (not the same as their profile website address...this is an extra profile field called Domain). If they have entered a doain, I want to enter http://domainname.com/cpanel as the link. If they haven't I want to NOT display the cpanel link.

Question is, I guess, what's the best way to get that field on that global nav bar?

Aaron

[okrogius]

if you want to display the link globally then you can make good use of the phpinclude template.

Include in it: (note: not sure if the customfieldx is the proper name)

PHP Code:

if ( empty($bbuserinfo[customfieldx]) ) {
$cpanelLogin = '';
} else {
$cpanelLogin = $bbuserinfo[customfieldx] . ':2082';
} 


Then you can use $cpanelLogin in all of your templates. No code changes are needed.

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I follow you but customfield5 doesn't work...

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ok, figured it our...$bbuserinfo[field5]

Anyways, see http:forum.hostareus.com to see wha tI mean.

This is the code I'm using in phpinclude:

PHP Code:

if ( empty($bbuserinfo[field5]) ) {
$cpanelLogin = '';
} else {
$cpanelLogin = "<a class='topnav' href='http://$bbuserinfo[field5]:2082'>cPanel</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;|&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp . ':2082'";
} 


This is a portion of the code in the header:

PHP Code:

 <!-- toplinks -->
   <a class="topnav" href="http://$cpanelLogin">cPanel</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;|&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp
   <a class="topnav" href="usercp.php?s=$session[sessionhash]">Profile</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;|&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
   <a class="topnav" href="register.php?s=$session[sessionhash]&action=signup">Register</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;|&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 


There's 2 problems here:

1) No cpanel link is supposed to be displayed if profile field 5 is blank.

2) that link is supposed to link to THEIRDOMAIN:2082. Instead it points to the page the user is on...

Any clues whats going on?

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come on, anybody?

[okrogius]

Try this:

PHP Code:

if ( empty($bbuserinfo[field5]) ) {
$cpanelLogin = '';
} else {
$cpanelLogin = '<a class="topnav" href="http://' . $bbuserinfo[field5] . ':2082">cPanel</a>';
} 


And in your header template you need to have just $cpanelLogin, no <a> tags, etc.

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thanks. It works.

[okrogius]

OH , and not to ruin your mood of your announcements forum, this ireally a template modification, not a code hack.

Feel free to ask if you need any more help doing something with vb.