How do I create things which can only be viewed by either logged in or logged out users?

Hallooo everyone

Me and my admins have begun to create our own "menu", like the one of the head of every forum where you can have the functions for login, logout, FAQ, portal, member, search and so on.

Our menu is going to be on the side of the forum like a widget.
but how do we create the same "function" for login, logout and create new user and such
because we want it to be like normally that if you are logged out then you can see the login and create user buttons, and if you are logged in then you can only see logout button

Sorry if you don't understand what I'm trying to say, I think it is hard to explain ^^

Yours
Medusa

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Hello @medusa,

While creating the menu you need to add some rules before the links you want to be visible for those who are online and an other rule for the links for those who are offline.
Here are the rules you need to add to your template:

<!-- BEGIN switch_user_logged_in -->
links for logged in
<!-- END switch_user_logged_in -->

<!-- BEGIN switch_user_logged_out -->
links for logged out
<!-- END switch_user_logged_out -->

If you use these rules then the links in logged_in rule will be visible only for those that have logged in and the links in logged_out rule will be visible for guests and not to those who are logged in.!

Luffy

Many thanks for your solution ^^

Sadly I must say that our admins are not competent enough to understand the code system of templates(We are only selftaught programmers)
and we are making our menu with hmtl in the widget itself and some css kodes.
So is there a way of using hmtl? instead of templates? ^^

Hello,

You want to add a widget that will be a menu or you want to add an other menu at the right side?

Hallo @Luffy

Our menu is made within a customized-widget(just a plain widget), the ones forumotions provides
Where we use hmtl within the widget itself through the administrationpanel and then some css codes because we have a dropdown menu. But not that it really matters, I just want to hear if we can use a special kind of HMTL code of this function which I requested ^^

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You should try maybe adding something like > https://help.forumotion.com/t132126-phpbb2-have-a-vertical-navigation-bar

As then you can simple edit in what luffy wrote to hide certain things, although i do-not use Phpbb2

Sadly I cannot use that one because we have other things in our menu which the normal menu/bar does not contain ^^ Also dropdown menu effects and such
But else thanks for the solution, sadly we can't use it.

Hi @medusa,

A simple method I could come up with you would be to use JavaScript, since you're not able to use the template tags. Go to Administration Panel > Modules > JavaScript codes management > Create a new script

Placement : In all the pages
Paste the following code and click submit :

Code:

$(function() {
  if (_userdata.session_logged_in) {
    $('.fa_logged_in').show()
    $('.fa_logged_out').hide();
  } else {
    $('.fa_logged_in').hide()
    $('.fa_logged_out').show();
  }
});

This will then allow you to add special classnames to elements you want shown based on the user state. If I wanted something only shown for logged in members I can do the following :

Code:

<a class="fa_logged_in" href="/login?logout=1">My logout button</a>

As you can see, I've applied the class class="fa_logged_in". The script will hide elements with this class while logged out, but will show them while logged in. If JS is disabled however, the elements will render as their default state depending if you've hidden them with CSS or not.

The classes you can use are :
fa_logged_in : shows elements with this class only while logged in.
fa_logged_out : shows elements with this class only while logged out.

You can also add multiple classes by separating them with a space, just so you know.

Code:

<a class="mainmenu fa_logged_in" href="/login?logout=1">My logout button</a>
<a class="mainmenu fa_logged_out" href="/login">My login button</a>

If any questions, let me know.

See you