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Anybody know a way to setup a different header for logged in members?

There is no config parm for this as I recall but ... here are two ideas that I would pursue This could probably create a functions.php file in the theme directory and then add code in there to manipulate the header template or use an alternate template file. Or you create a new theme .. disable users from changing themes and then add a small hack to switch themes if user is signed in. Blaine

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Is there any variable that says the user is logged in? I could easily just put an if statement up at the top to look for that if true do the new header.

Well you can not include php code in the .thtml template files. Any code in a functions.php file will be exectuted before most gl components are formated by template files. Also, the GL template engine does not support if type statements or any other logic in the template files. It parses variables such as {datetime} which are set by the formating code in GL. Example: the function COM_siteHeader in lib-common formats and sets the variables for header.thtml You can see plenty of code examples that are checking the GL global array $_USER for $_USER['uid'] and a uid > 1 is a signed in user. Anonymous users have a uid of 1 Blaine

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"...small hack to switch themes if user is signed in..." This sounds super cool, has anyone done this? I would use it right now. Cheers & thanks for infos Stevyn

Well this is not exactly true. You can add php code to the header.thtml, but that is all. So that is what I'll probably end up doing. Thanks

Well, go ahead and do it. As stated before, by default anonymous people have a $_USER['uid'] = 1. Everyone else who is signed in has a higher uid. Inside your header.thtml file, just add a simple if/else statement like this: put the header you want to display to logged in users here put the header you want to display to anonymous users here That's it. Anytime the page is called the script will check the person's uid and display different headers to anonymous and logged in users.