Showing Different Stuff When Logged In Or Not...?

[SystemLogic]

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?

[BobbiX]

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

<?
require("./global.php");

if ($bbuserinfo['userid']!=0) {
*code here what you want to happen when use is logged in*
} else {
*code here what you want to do when user isn't known*
}

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 :

<?
header ("Pragma: no-cache"); 
header ("Cache-Control: no-cache, must-revalidate, max_age=0"); 
header ("Expires: 0"); 
?>

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

[SystemLogic]

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?

[Admin]

In index.php replace this:

PHP Code:

$unregwelcomemessage='';
if ($bbuserinfo['userid']==0) {
  eval("\$unregwelcomemessage = \"".gettemplate('forumhome_unregmessage')."\";");
} 


with

PHP Code:

$welcomemessage='';
if ($bbuserinfo['userid']==0) {
  eval("\$welcomemessage = \"".gettemplate('forumhome_unregmessage')."\";");
} else 
  eval("\$welcomemessage = \"".gettemplate('forumhome_regmessage')."\";");
} 


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.

[SystemLogic]

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

PHP Code:

$welcomemessage='';
if ($bbuserinfo['userid']==0) {
  eval("\$welcomemessage = \"".gettemplate('forumhome_unregmessage')."\";");
} else 
  eval("\$welcomemessage = \"".gettemplate('forumhome_regmessage')."\";");
} 


It should actually be:

PHP Code:

$welcomemessage='';
if ($bbuserinfo['userid']==0) {
  eval("\$welcomemessage = \"".gettemplate('forumhome_unregmessage')."\";");
} else {
  eval("\$welcomemessage = \"".gettemplate('forumhome_regmessage')."\";");
} 


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

Thanks again

[Admin]

Damn brackets...