Displaying conditional username & logout link in account page

[polarexpress]

The following conditional syntax displays the logged in users their account & log out links in their account pages on locally hosted server after successful log in without any problem but on remote server it suddenly started printing "HI" "||" & "Log Out" even if the users aren't logged in. Any idea?

Username Link

<?php
if ($totalRows_users > 0) { 
if (checklevel 1()) {
echo "Hi <a href='userarea1/user1.php' target='_self'>".$row_users['user_name']."</a>";
} else { 
echo "Hi <a href='userarea2/user2.php' target='_self'>".$row_users['user_name']."</a>";
}
} else if ($totalRows_visitors > 0) {
echo "Hi <a href='../videoarchive/visitorarea/visitoraccount.php' target='_self'>".$row_visitors['user_name']."</a>";
}
?>  

Log Out Link

<?php if ($totalRows_users> 0) { 

if (checklevel1()) {
echo "|| <a href='userarea1/logout.php' target='_self'>Log Out</a>";
} else { 
echo "|| <a href='userarea2/logout.php' target='_self'>Log Out</a>";
}
} else if ($totalRows_visitors > 0) { 
echo "|| <a href='../videoarchive/logout.php' target='_self'>Log Out</a>";
}
?>

Here (checklevel 1()) function is users' privilege level and it's associated value is 1 in database. In both cases first two echo statements are being isolated from one another based on the privilege level 1 & 2 in one database table whereas the last statement is being distinguished from the users groups of first two statements based on user level 2 in another database table.

The syntax works perfectly on local host. I'm encountering the problem on remote host only.

Thanks in advance,

[polarexpress]

You assumption is very close to the problem I'm encountering suddenly on the remote server.

To observe the problem more closely, I renamed the each text label separately under every statement. (For instance, Hi= A, B, C, || = D, E, F & Log Out = G, H, I)

It seems that, else if statement is performing it tasks properly. The unexpected text labels appears because of the following else statement in every case.

else {
echo "Hi <a href='userarea2/user2.php' target='_self'>".$row_users['user_name']."</a>";
} 

The interesting thing here is that the unexpected text is being printed on the pages (Pages to which session is passed regardless the authenticated users) caused by the above syntax without the database record.

For example, the above syntax should print Hi user || Log Out if really the problem is occurred by it but it prints Hi || Log Out only and it shouldn't actually by any mean since it's clearly defined in the syntax that the whole block of tagged code under each echo statement should be printed at once with all it's functionalities only if the user record is found from the database.

I'm encountering a really funny and illogical problem suddenly.

Thank you,