UBB.threads PHP Forum Software Community Forums UBB.threads Version 7/8 Support How do I only display Custom Island Insert's for guests?

I'd like to only display Custom Island Insert to guests and not signed in members.

How can I do this? I think it'll encourage people to sign up.

You need a little snippet of PHP in the insert. I'd like to have the same thing, but I don't know the code.

Currently there isn't a way to only show it if the user is not logged in. However, you can do a bit of php work and make the contents of the box different for those that are logged in compared to those that aren't logged in. You'd use this for the contents:

Rick could i use somthing simular to validate
if a user is logged in or not to view
external web pages ?

As i been looking for a solution since 7.00 beta's

As i have web pages that i only want members too see.

Thanks Mark.

Rick,
If I add your code exactly as you posted, it doesn't work. What did I miss? Thanks.

It only works as an island insert on the sides and not a forum insert for the time being.

(Also be careful, there's a bug that's stripping out the PHP references in the custom island when you edit it.)

yep...that is whats happening... it strips out the PHP reference. Is there any way to force it to accept it?

--never mind, I got it to save after repeatedly trying it about 4 or 5 times. But now I get an error after activating it on my site. In fact the homepage completely fails to render.

Here's my version of the code:
===================================
$body = <<<EOF
<?PHP
if (\$user['USER_DISPLAY_NAME']) {
echo <<<STUFF
Thanks for logging in.
STUFF;
} else {
echo <<<STUFF
Please login in order to post a note or reply.
STUFF;
}
>?
EOF;

Here is the ERROR code:
============================
Parse error: parse error, unexpected '>' in /home/virtual/site40/fst/var/www/html/forum/cache/portal_box_8.php on line 22

Look at your code...

Should be

You know... I saw that last night and meant to fix it... but then when I had to save the darn thing four times to get it to accept the <?-p-h-p (without -'s), I forgot about it.

Hey!! It works great now!!! Very cool... I have a lot of people who forget to log in... I might add this to the upper right corner as a reminder.

Thanks Gizmo for taking the time to look it over.. and of course, Rick for posting the original code. I'm starting to feel pretty good about these Islands now!!!

Lol its no problem, and an honest mistake hehe; glad you have it up now though