Myujth

Please, I'm new to PHP and I'm building a subscription-based ecommerce site. I've been able to customize the pages such that they look different based on who's browsing what, but I'd like to take the Renew Account off the admin page since they don't have to subscribe.

I've been struggling all day. Please, could someone show me how it could be achieved?
Below is the snippet:

<?php // Show the user info or the login form:
 if (isset($_SESSION['user_id'])) 

 // Show basic user options:
 echo '<div class="title">
 <h4>Manage Your Account</h4>
 </div>
 <ul>
 <li><a href="renew.php" title="Renew Your Account">Renew Account</a></li>
 <li><a href="change_password.php" title="Change Your Password">Change Password</a></li>
 <li><a href="favorites.php" title="View Your Favorite Pages">Favorites</a></li>
 <li><a href="history.php" title="View Your History">History</a></li>
 <li><a href="recommendations.php" title="View Your Recommendations">Recommendations</a></li>
 <li><a href="logout.php" title="Logout">Logout</a></li>
 </ul>
 ';

 // Show admin options, if appropriate:
 if (isset($_SESSION['user_admin'])) 
 echo '<div class="title">
 <h4>Administration</h4>
 </div>
 <ul>
 <li><a href="add_page.php" title="Add a Page">Add Page</a></li>
 <li><a href="add_pdf.php" title="Add a PDF">Add PDF</a></li>
 <li><a href="#" title="Blah">Blah</a></li>
 </ul>
 '; 
 

 else // Show the login form:

 require ('login_form.inc.php');


?>

What you could do is to first check if the user admin session is set, to which I added the same conditional value for in the first conditional statement.

If it is set, then assign an empty value for what I named as $renew, with an else with the value that I removed from your existing <li></li>.

The first two session arrays here are only representational values of course.

I concatenated the '.$renew.' variable in the menu.

Note: Make sure that the session was started using session_start() inside all pages using sessions; that is not known.

$_SESSION['user_id'] = 123;
$_SESSION['user_admin'] = "john";

if (isset($_SESSION['user_admin'])) 

$renew = '';

 else 

$renew = '<li><a href="renew.php" title="Renew Your Account">Renew Account</a></li>';




if (isset($_SESSION['user_id'])) 

 // Show basic user options:
 echo '<div class="title">
 <h4>Manage Your Account</h4>
 </div>
 <ul>
 '.$renew.'
 <li><a href="change_password.php" title="Change Your Password">Change Password</a></li>
 <li><a href="favorites.php" title="View Your Favorite Pages">Favorites</a></li>
 <li><a href="history.php" title="View Your History">History</a></li>
 <li><a href="recommendations.php" title="View Your Recommendations">Recommendations</a></li>
 <li><a href="logout.php" title="Logout">Logout</a></li>
 </ul>
 ';

 // Show admin options, if appropriate:
 if (isset($_SESSION['user_admin'])) 
 echo '<div class="title">
 <h4>Administration</h4>
 </div>
 <ul>
 <li><a href="add_page.php" title="Add a Page">Add Page</a></li>
 <li><a href="add_pdf.php" title="Add a PDF">Add PDF</a></li>
 <li><a href="#" title="Blah">Blah</a></li>
 </ul>
 '; 
 

Try..

If(!isset($_SESSION['user_admin'])) echo '<li><a href="renew.php" title="Renew Your Account">Renew Account</a></li>'; 

This way if it the session variable for admin is set the echo won't occur.