PHP: Displaying different menus to different user types.

TunaSaladBB

Hi all,

I'm new to PHP and just looking for any advice anyone might have on the following problem I'm having.

I have created a database and tables for registering and logging in users. Each record has three different User Types (or roles): 1, 2 and 3. Once the session has started, I would like to make certain menu items available to certain User Types. I suppose it is some sort of if...elseif statement such as:

<?php if($UserType==1) echo {"<p>Menu1</p>"}
elseif($UserType==2) echo {"<p>Menu2</p>"}
elseif($UserType==3) echo {"<p>Menu3</p>"}; ?>

Would anybody be able to point me in the right direction? I'd really appreciate any help at all.

Dale Parish

Just use
if(isset($_POST)) { echo "Some data"; }
if(isset($_POST)) { echo "Some more data"; }

Having said that checking it via POST might not be the best option but if it is for something basic then it's fine. You might be better off sending the info via session

TunaSaladBB

Thanks very much. Got it sorted anyway. Assigned session variables based on the users' access level stored in my database.

Placebo

might be better to have menus in different files and just INCLUDE the file instead of echoing out the full code

http://php.net/manual/en/function.include.php