Member-visible only section of website

[cbjewelz]

Hi everyone
I'm trying to create a blog style webpage which has multiple side menu divs, including a login form and a user menu. I'm using php5. What I want is for several of these sections to be visible only once the user has logged in. Similarly, things like the log in form should disappear once the user has logged in. I tried doing this through the use of a conditional statement as follows:

	<div 
<?php

		if ($_SESSION['login'] = "yes"){
		echo "style=\"display:none\"";
		}

?>

However, this doesn't seem to be working. Any ideas?
Thanks

[laserlight]

You confused the copy assignment operator with the equality comparison operator. It should be:

if ($_SESSION['login'] == "yes"){

Of course, note that setting the style to "display: none" is a bad idea from a security point of view. An unauthorised user can still view source. You should not even send to the client what you do not want the client to see.

[cbjewelz]

would a better/more secure way then be to use a format like:

if (blah blah) {

echo "in here put one of divs"

else {
echo "put a different div"
}

thanks

[laserlight]

Yes, or at least something along those lines.

[fred007]

hi can i ask a question about php5?

[laserlight]

Yes, but please start your own thread.

[fred007]

oh yes i have started. my question is: i installed apache2.2 on my pc(running windows xp) and it seems to work ok and then i installed php5 and am trying to run php thru apache, and so i changed the conf files in apache. Problem is when i restart apache i get a message saying "httpd.exe:could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 80.1... for ServerName" and i cant load the test.php on the browser.do you know what the problem might be? thanks

[fred007]

hey ya! any ideas?

[cbjewelz]

thanks laserlight