[Documentation] How can I hide the right column ( Panel ) from Guests ?

japa_la

Hi guys,

I'm still very new to Vanilla Forums. and need some help.

I would like to make my forum to be a closed community which only registered users can see everything.

I unchecked everything at the Guest Role Setting page ( yoursite.com/role/edit/2 ) so guests can only see the header/footer, title logos, basic menu and log in/register forms. Until this part, I have no problem. Vanilla is perfect.

But here's the thing I have to solve.

Guests can still see the whole right column ( id="Panel" ). But I would like to show GuestBox ( id="GuestBox") only for guests in the right column. And hide the rest of right column from guests.

Is anyone can tell me how to do it ? I'm only a frontend designer and very little experience with PHP or any programming.

So any help will be greatly appreciated.

Thank you

Pon

UnderDog

Open themes/views/defaul.master.php (or .tpl) For TPL is the following example:

{if $User.SignedIn} Do some coding like show the Panel Asset {/if}

For PHP is the following example:

$Session = Gdn::Session();
if ($Session->IsValid()) { Show the Panel Asset } else { Show only the Guest Box asset }

japa_la

Hi UnderDog,

Thank you very much for your reply. But I'm still wondering what to be written in "Show the Panel Asset" part of default.master.php.

$Session = Gdn::Session();
if ($Session->IsValid())
{
Show the Panel Asset
} else
{
Show only the Guest Box asset
}


---------------------------------
My code is like this now.
---------------------------------



$Session = Gdn::Session();


if ($this->Menu) {
$this->Menu->AddLink('Linktitle', T('About'), '/categories/office');
//$this->Menu->AddLink('Linktitle', T('Topics'), '/categories/all');
$this->Menu->AddLink('Dashboard', T('Admin'), '/dashboard/settings',
array('Garden.Settings.Manage'));


if ($Session->IsValid()) {
$Name = $Session->User->Name;
$CountNotifications = $Session->User->CountNotifications;
if (is_numeric($CountNotifications) && $CountNotifications > 0)
$Name .= ' < span class="Alert" >'. $CountNotifications.'';


if (urlencode($Session->User->Name) == $Session->User->Name)
$ProfileSlug = $Session->User->Name;
else
$ProfileSlug = $Session->UserID.'/'.urlencode($Session->User->Name);
$this->Menu->AddLink('User', $Name, '/profile/'.$ProfileSlug, array('Garden.SignIn.Allow'),
array('class' => 'UserNotifications'));
$this->Menu->AddLink('SignOut', T('Sign Out'), SignOutUrl(), FALSE, array('class' =>
'NonTab SignOut'));


} else {
$Attribs = array();
if (SignInPopup() && strpos(Gdn::Request()->Url(), 'entry') === FALSE)
$Attribs['class'] = 'SignInPopup';
$this->Menu->AddLink('Entry', T('Sign in'), SignInUrl($this->SelfUrl), FALSE, array('class' => 'NonTab'), $Attribs);
}
echo $this->Menu->ToString();
}
?>

UnderDog

Scroll waaayyy down in that same default.master.php file.

Try to find the word 'Assed' in that same file. It's close to the

<

div id="Panel">It's usually something like $this->RenderAsset('Panel')

Apply the code I showed above:

if ($Session->IsValid()) { $this->RenderAsset('Panel'); } else { $this->RenderAsset('GuestBox'); }

japa_la

Hi UnderDog,

Thank you so much for your help. I really appreciate it.

But I still have problems...

I tried it. but GuestBox is included in Panel. And I don't know how to separate them.

One more thing is that my right column includes other extra things that I added to default.master.php like Facebook Like box or Google Adsense Ads. Those things makes this right column very long... so I need to hide them together with 'Panel' from Guests.

Is there any way that I put those extra things into "Panel".

or

Is there any easy simple code you can write to hide them ? I need some simple code which surround something to hide it from guests.

I tried to use the code you showed me above like...

if ($Session->IsValid())
{
$this->RenderAsset('Panel');
$this->RenderAsset('OtherThings');
}

but it ended up with errors...

Hope you get what I'm trying to explain here. I wish I knew some PHP...but I don't. Need your help.

Thank you,