I downloaded the script today and found it to be an easy and understandable script that could do the simple thing I wanted it to. I have been spending a few hours now on understanding the different php commands and editing the script to fit my website, fixing bugs etc. and now I am trying to figure out a way to protect certain parts within one page.

Heres the deal: I have a members page (directed to after you log in) where I want a menu of links etc. to appear (links to forums, members only pages, etc.) and within that menu, I want a link to the admin control panel. The problem, however, is that I want the link to the admin control panel to be invisible to level 1 members but visible to level 4 members (admins), on the same one .php page.


Now what I have tried to do is to make a separate file called adminmenu.php and in it I put the following:
<?php include "level4_check_onlyadmins.php"; ?>
<div align="center"><a href="admin.php">Admin Control Panel</a></div>

Then I went to the members index.php page and added the following in the menu:
<?php include "adminmenu.php"; ?>

But what it now does is to include the line;
<?php include "level4_check_onlyadmins.php"; ?>
in the whole index.php page, and not just for the included adminmenu.php page.

This leads to the page being fully visible with the admin control panel in the menu for admin users, but when I log in with a level 1 user the whole page looks destroyed and kind off messed up (because of the php commands messing up).

Am I totally off track here or is there something to it?

Is there a way to protect certain parts of one page from some user levels but still allow higher user levels to see them?

Thanks

You need to establish what level the user is logged in as, and then check for that level.
You can can use $_SESSION, or cookies, or a combination of the two. For my sites (all hobby site, but membership sites non-the-less) I pull the 'user_level' from mysql database, and set a $_SESSION['user_level'], then compare:

(This is over-simplified and sloppy syntax! BEWARE!)

if ($_SESSION['user_level'] < 4)
    {include "member_menu.php";}
    else
    {include "level4_check_onlyadmins.php";}

or the 'inverse' logic:

if ($_SESSION['user_level'] == 4)
    {include "level4_check_onlyadmins.php";}
    else
    {include "member_menu.php";}

I hope this gets you headed in a better direction.....

Sweet! That was actually just what I needed !

Thank you !