User Levels and menu items

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User Levels and menu items

Poster: alanpollenz
Dated: Wednesday July 11 2007 - 17:49:40 BST

I am working on a site for a non-profit organization (a local swim team affiliated with USA Swimming). Users on the site have various user levels (1-9) and permissions based on various flags, such as coach, administrator, etc. The user level and flags are stored as php session variables.

I have renamed my menu_data.js file to menu_data.php, and would like to have menu items presented based on user level. For example, in the menu below, I would like only users with a level of 5 or greater to see the second menu item (Add a Meet).

Code:

aI("text=Home;url=index.php;")
aI("text=Add a Meet;url=add.meet.php;")
aI("text=Member Area;url=members.php;")

I have tried something like:

Code:

aI("text=Home;url=index.php;")
<?
if ($userlevel>=5) {
print 'aI("text=Add a Meet;url=add.meet.php;")';
}
?>
aI("text=Member Area;url=members.php;")

but it doesn't output the second menu item even when the user level is 5 or greater.

Any idea on how to accomplish this?

Thanks.

Alan Pollenz

Poster: alanpollenz
Dated: Wednesday July 11 2007 - 22:40:22 BST

Problem solved!

I had to create a new php file which I call nav.menu.php. I copied all the normal code required to call the menu script into this file, except that rather than include the last line as recommended, I replaced

Code:

with the entire contents of the menu_data.js file, so that nav_menu.php looks like

Code:

<script type="text/javascript" src="js/milonic_src.js"></script>
<noscript><a href="http://www.milonic.com/">JavaScript DHTML Menu Powered by Milonic</a></noscript>
<script type="text/javascript" src="js/mmenudom.js"></script>

<script type="text/javascript">
fixMozillaZIndex=true; //Fixes Z-Index problem  with Mozilla browsers but causes odd scrolling problem, toggle to see if it helps
_menuCloseDelay=500;
_menuOpenDelay=150;
_subOffsetTop=2;
_subOffsetLeft=-2;

with(menuStyle=new mm_style()){
bordercolor="#999999";
borderstyle="solid";
borderwidth=1;
fontfamily="Verdana, Tahoma, Arial";
fontsize="75%";
fontstyle="normal";
headerbgcolor="#ffffff";
headercolor="#000000";
offbgcolor="#eeeeee";
offcolor="#000000";
onbgcolor="#ddffdd";
oncolor="#000099";
outfilter="randomdissolve(duration=0.3)";
overfilter="Fade(duration=0.2);Alpha(opacity=90);Shadow(color=#777777', Direction=135, Strength=3)";
padding=4;
pagebgcolor="#82B6D7";
pagecolor="black";
separatorcolor="#999999";
separatorsize=1;
subimage="http://www.milonic.com/menuimages/arrow.gif";
subimagepadding=2;
}

with(milonic=new menuname("Main Menu")){
alwaysvisible=1;
left=28;
//orientation="horizontal";
style=menuStyle;
top=120;
aI("text=Home;url=http://www.milonic.com/;");
aI("showmenu=Samples;text=Menu Samples;");
aI("showmenu=Milonic;text=Milonic;");
aI("showmenu=Partners;text=Partners;");
aI("showmenu=Links;text=Links;");
aI("showmenu=MyMilonic;text=My Milonic;");
}

with(milonic=new menuname("Samples")){
overflow="scroll";
style=menuStyle;
aI("text=Plain Text Horizontal Style DHTML Menu Bar;url=http://www.milonic.com/menusample1.php;")
aI("text=Vertical Plain Text Menu;url=http://www.milonic.com/menusample2.php;")
<?php 
if ($this_userlevel>='5') {
echo 'aI("text=Al\'s Menu;url=http://www.pollenz.net;")
';
}
 ?>
aI("text=All Horizontal Menus;url=http://www.milonic.com/menusample25.php;")
aI("text=Using The Popup Menu Function Positioned by Images;url=http://www.milonic.com/menusample24.php;")
aI("text=Classic XP Style Menu;url=http://www.milonic.com/menusample82.php;")
aI("text=XP Style;url=http://www.milonic.com/menusample86.php;")
aI("text=XP Taskbar Style Menu;url=http://www.milonic.com/menusample83.php;")
aI("text=Office XP Style Menu;url=http://www.milonic.com/menusample47.php;")
aI("text=Office 2003 Style Menu;url=http://www.milonic.com/menusample46.php;")
aI("text=Apple Mac Style Menu;url=http://www.milonic.com/menusample72.php;")
aI("text=Amazon Style Tab Menu;url=http://www.milonic.com/menusample74.php;")
aI("text=Milonic Home Menu;url=http://www.milonic.com/menusample78.php;")
aI("text=Windows 98 Style Menu;url=http://www.milonic.com/menusample13.php;")
aI("text=Multiple Styles Menu;url=http://www.milonic.com/menusample5.php;")
aI("text=Multi Colored Menu Items;url=http://www.milonic.com/menusample80.php;")
aI("text=Multi Colored Menus Using Styles;url=http://www.milonic.com/menusample7.php;")
aI("text=Multi Tab;url=http://www.milonic.com/menusample50.php;")
aI("text=Tab Top;url=http://www.milonic.com/menusample52.php;")
aI("text=Multi Columns;url=http://www.milonic.com/menusample73.php;")
aI("text=100% Width Span Menu;url=http://www.milonic.com/menusample26.php;")
aI("text=Follow Scrolling Style Menu;url=http://www.milonic.com/menusample10.php;")
aI("text=Menu Positioning With Offsets;url=http://www.milonic.com/menusample23.php;")
aI("text=Table Based (Relative) Menus;url=http://www.milonic.com/menusample9.php;")
aI("text=Opening Windows and Frames with the Menu;url=http://www.milonic.com/menusample11.php;")
aI("text=Menus Over Form Selects, Flash and Java Applets;url=http://www.milonic.com/menusample14.php;")
aI("text=Activating Functions on Mouseover;url=http://www.milonic.com/menusample15.php;")
aI("text=Drag Drop Menus;url=http://www.milonic.com/menusample22.php;")
aI("text=Menus with Header Type Items;url=http://www.milonic.com/menusample8.php;")
aI("text=Right To Left Openstyle;url=http://www.milonic.com/menusample65.php;")
aI("text=Up Openstyle Featuring Headers;url=http://www.milonic.com/menusample33.php;")
aI("text=DHTML Menus and Tooltips;url=http://www.milonic.com/menusample6.php;")
aI("text=Unlimited Level Menus Example;url=http://www.milonic.com/menusample67.php;")
aI("text=Context Right Click Menu;url=http://www.milonic.com/menusample27.php;")
aI("text=Menus built entirely from images;url=http://www.milonic.com/menusample18.php;")
aI("text=Static Images Sample;url=http://www.milonic.com/menusample16.php;")
aI("text=Rollover Swap Images Sample;url=http://www.milonic.com/menusample17.php;")
aI("text=Background Item Images;url=http://www.milonic.com/menusample20.php;")
aI("text=Background Image Buttons;url=http://www.milonic.com/menusample89.php;")
aI("text=Menu Background Images;url=http://www.milonic.com/menusample76.php;")
aI("text=Creating Texture with Menu Background Images;url=http://www.milonic.com/menusample19.php;")
aI("text=Static Background Item Images;url=http://www.milonic.com/menusample71.php;")
aI("text=Vertical Static Background Item Images;url=http://www.milonic.com/menusample87.php;")
aI("text=World Map Sample;url=http://www.milonic.com/menusample92.php;")
aI("text=US Map Sample;url=http://www.milonic.com/menusample91.php;")
aI("text=Image Map Sample;url=http://www.milonic.com/menusample4.php;")
aI("text=Rounded Edges Imperial Style;url=http://www.milonic.com/menusample21.php;")
aI("text=Corporation;url=http://www.milonic.com/menusample40.php;")
aI("text=International;url=http://www.milonic.com/menusample70.php;")
aI("text=Clean;url=http://www.milonic.com/menusample32.php;")
aI("text=3D Gradient Block;url=http://www.milonic.com/menusample57.php;")
aI("text=Descreet;url=http://www.milonic.com/menusample42.php;")
aI("text=Agriculture;url=http://www.milonic.com/menusample41.php;")
aI("text=Breeze;url=http://www.milonic.com/menusample29.php;")
aI("text=Chart;url=http://www.milonic.com/menusample66.php;")
aI("text=Cartoon;url=http://www.milonic.com/menusample77.php;")
aI("text=Start Button Menu;url=http://www.milonic.com/menusample69.php;")
aI("text=Tramline;url=http://www.milonic.com/menusample54.php;")
}

with(milonic=new menuname("Milonic")){
style=menuStyle;
aI("text=Product Purchasing Page;url=http://www.milonic.com/cbuy.php;");
aI("text=Contact Us;url=http://www.milonic.com/contactus.php;");
aI("text=Newsletter Subscription;url=http://www.milonic.com/newsletter.php;");
aI("text=FAQ;url=http://www.milonic.com/menufaq.php;");
aI("text=Discussion Forum;url=http://www.milonic.com/forum/;");
aI("text=Software License Agreement;url=http://www.milonic.com/license.php;");
aI("text=Privacy Policy;url=http://www.milonic.com/privacy.php;");
}

with(milonic=new menuname("Partners")){
style=menuStyle;
aI("text=(aq) Web Hosting;url=http://www.a-q.co.uk/;");
aI("text=WebSmith;url=http://www.softidiom.com/?milonicmenu;");
aI("text=SMS 2 Email;url=http://www.sms2email.com/;");
}

with(milonic=new menuname("Links")){
style=menuStyle;
aI("text=Apache Web Server;url=http://www.apache.org/;");
aI("text=MySQL Database Server;url=http://ww.mysql.com/;");
aI("text=PHP - Development;url=http://www.php.net/;");
aI("text=phpBB Web Forum System;url=http://www.phpbb.net/;");
aI("showmenu=Anti Spam;text=Anti Spam Tools;");
}

with(milonic=new menuname("Anti Spam")){
style=menuStyle;
aI("text=Spam Cop;url=http://www.spamcop.net/;");
aI("text=Mime Defang;url=http://www.mimedefang.org/;");
aI("text=Spam Assassin;url=http://www.spamassassin.org/;");
}

with(milonic=new menuname("MyMilonic")){
style=menuStyle;
aI("text=Login;url=http://www.milonic.com/login.php;");
aI("text=Licenses;url=http://www.milonic.com/mylicenses.php;");
aI("text=Invoices;url=http://www.milonic.com/myinvoices.php;");
aI("text=Make Support Request;url=http://www.milonic.com/reqsupport.php;");
aI("text=View Support Requests;url=http://www.milonic.com/mysupport.php;");
aI("text=Your Details;url=http://www.milonic.com/mydetails.php;");
}

drawMenus();
</script>

Note the php conditional

Code:

<?php 
if ($this_userlevel>='5') {
echo 'aI("text=Al\'s Menu;url=http://www.pollenz.net;")
';
}
 ?>

I then added a line of code to all my pages to call the nav.menu.php file and it works like a champ.

Alan

Poster: Ruth
Dated: Thursday July 12 2007 - 18:09:52 BST

Hi Alan,

I'm glad you found the solution, and we volunteers on the forum appreciate very much that you posted it for other users. Thank you.

Ruth

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User Levels and menu items