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Topic: Permissions for Navigation

I'm not sure if this is the right place, or if this has been done, I checked.. but I'm wondering as to how can I have links in the navigation invisible to guests, and viewable for users? I have a few custom links added using the settings in the admin panel, and I would like a few of them to be hidden to the public but registered users. Any help would be very appreciated tongue. Sorry again if this is the wrong forum to post in.

  • Slavok
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Re: Permissions for Navigation

Navigation links are generated in the function "generate_navlinks" (Line 413 of "<FORUM_ROOT>/include/functions.php"). Additional navlinks are added at lines 458-464. To determine whether a user is guest or not use this code:

  if ($forum_user['is_guest'])
  {
     //actions
  }

Will this information be enough for you?

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  • Registered: 2007-04-22
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Re: Permissions for Navigation

Yes! Thank you so much! smile

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  • Fact
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Re: Permissions for Navigation

Thanks to ALL for the generous gift of your genius. I am in over my head but I am having fun. I would like to exclude the optional navigation links from guest viewing and I have attempted the solution from Slavok but this is the best I can do:

    // Are there any additional navlinks we should insert into the array before imploding it?
    if ($forum_user['is_guest'] = false)
    {if ($forum_config['o_additional_navlinks'] != '' && preg_match_all('#([0-9]+)\s*=\s*(.*?)\n#s', $forum_config['o_additional_navlinks']."\n", $extra_links))
    {
        // Insert any additional links into the $links array (at the correct index)
        $num_links = count($extra_links[1]);
        for ($i = 0; $i < $num_links; ++$i)
            array_insert($links, (int)$extra_links[1][$i], '<li id="navextra'.($i + 1).'">'.$extra_links[2][$i].'</li>');
    }}

Is it my syntax or am I too green to be going here? At the least, I do not know how to write the 

if ($forum_user['is_guest'] = false)

argument.

  • Slavok
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Re: Permissions for Navigation

The 458 line of "<FORUM_ROOT>/include/functions.php" will look like:

if (!$forum_user['is_guest'] && $forum_config['o_additional_navlinks'] != '' && preg_match_all('#([0-9]+)\s*=\s*(.*?)\n#s', $forum_config['o_additional_navlinks']."\n", $extra_links))

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  • Fact
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Re: Permissions for Navigation

Thanks, Slavok. It worked! I over complicated matters.