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I am a newbie to this and I would like to know if it is possible to display a set of elements in the menu for one group of people (e.g. people not logged in) and another for members.

For example, I do not wish people to have access to site statistics, yet it shows up in the menu and people can click on it. I would like to avoid that. Same thing for "contribute" which should be visible only to people who have already logged in.

Many thanks

Someone correct me if I am wrong, but I think the simple answer is, no, this isn't a built-in capability. You can very easily disable those features in the config.php file for non-logged in users, but often that 'menu' is hard coded into the template.

Now, having said that, I believe you could fairly easily create a theme that hid parts of the menu depending on if the user was logged in. Ihaven't done a lot of work with themes, but I believe you _can_ put php into template files, and if so, you could add code to the theme file to change the theme based ont eh user's login status.

Anyone else with a little more confidence in their answer?

Exaurdon

Yeah, you should be able to do this with php.

Use the following pseudocode:

So..should I do that

1) in the header.thtml or
2) should I look into lib-common.php (where menu_elements is constructed) ?

Is it reasonable to build

{visitor_menu_elements} and {member_menu_elements} in lib-common.php?

Or rather

place the code suggested above into lib-common.php, with menu_elements being constructed differently depending on the status of $_USER['uid'] ?

Or rather

place the code suggested above into lib-common.php, with menu_elements being constructed differently depending on the status of $_USER['uid'] ?

You can either put the code I posted in header.thtml or make your own variable in lib-common.php.

I would suggest doing it my way as it would not require changing lib-common.