Comments on: Determing Login State (MODx) http://www.dangibbs.co.uk/journal/determing-login-state-modx Daniel Gibbs' Online Journal Mon, 30 Jan 2012 09:41:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Rhepungus http://www.dangibbs.co.uk/journal/determing-login-state-modx/comment-page-1#comment-5054 Rhepungus Fri, 05 Feb 2010 16:54:45 +0000 http://www.danielgibbs.net/journal/?p=220#comment-5054 Thanks guys, you really helped me out today. Much appreciated. Thanks guys, you really helped me out today. Much appreciated.

]]> By: Gibbs http://www.dangibbs.co.uk/journal/determing-login-state-modx/comment-page-1#comment-1240 Gibbs Fri, 23 Oct 2009 10:18:33 +0000 http://www.danielgibbs.net/journal/?p=220#comment-1240 Thanks for that Tom, very helpful. Much appreciated. Thanks for that Tom, very helpful.

Much appreciated.

]]> By: Tom http://www.dangibbs.co.uk/journal/determing-login-state-modx/comment-page-1#comment-1190 Tom Thu, 22 Oct 2009 05:47:24 +0000 http://www.danielgibbs.net/journal/?p=220#comment-1190 Thank you. I needed similar functionality to show a 'Logout' link on my page and also an 'Update Profile' link. I ended up creating a snippet similar to yours above. As an alternative, though, I tried to use a template variable (tv), which did work so long as your pages that use it in aren't cached. For instance, I created a tv called 'manageUser': Input Type: text Default Value: @EVAL if (isset($_SESSION['webValidated'])) return '[~76~]'; else return ''; (document ID [~76~] is the page that displays the user's profile by calling the WebLoginPE snippet: [!WebLoginPE? &type=`profile` !]) Widget: Hyperlink Display Text: Update Profile Then I use the 'manageUser' tv in my template: ...   [*manageUser*] Effectively, I have a footer at the bottom of every page that shows a link 'Update Profile' if you're logged in and nothing if you're not. Again, if the page that uses this template has caching turned on, then the tv is evaluated once and cached, so its value never changes if you login/logout. Major bummer! I didn't want to turn off caching for all my pages, so I went the uncached snippet route. Thank you. I needed similar functionality to show a ‘Logout’ link on my page and also an ‘Update Profile’ link. I ended up creating a snippet similar to yours above.

As an alternative, though, I tried to use a template variable (tv), which did work so long as your pages that use it in aren’t cached.

For instance, I created a tv called ‘manageUser’:
Input Type: text
Default Value: @EVAL if (isset($_SESSION['webValidated'])) return ‘[~76~]‘; else return ”; (document ID [~76~] is the page that displays the user’s profile by calling the WebLoginPE snippet: [!WebLoginPE? &type=`profile` !])
Widget: Hyperlink
Display Text: Update Profile

Then I use the ‘manageUser’ tv in my template:

…
  [*manageUser*]

Effectively, I have a footer at the bottom of every page that shows a link ‘Update Profile’ if you’re logged in and nothing if you’re not.

Again, if the page that uses this template has caching turned on, then the tv is evaluated once and cached, so its value never changes if you login/logout. Major bummer! I didn’t want to turn off caching for all my pages, so I went the uncached snippet route.

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