Hide Login/logout button

[compac]

It's only the administrator and the superuser who need to use my login-function.
How can I hide this text for other users?

[Joachim Müller]

Hide the login button completely: edit themes/yourtheme/theme.php and find

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<!-- BEGIN login -->
                       <a href="{LOGIN_TGT}">{LOGIN_LNK}</a>
<!-- END login -->and replace it with

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<!-- BEGIN login -->
                       <!--<a href="{LOGIN_TGT}">{LOGIN_LNK}</a>-->
<!-- END login -->
Tell your super-users to point their browsers to http://yourdomain.tld/your_coppermine_folder/login.php to actually log in.
Disable registration of new users in coppermine config.

GauGau

[compac]

It doesn't work. The login-button is not visible when I do that.
Maybe there shold be a administrator-page with its own adress?
Can you help me in the actual situation to place the button in a discrete place on the page?

[Joachim Müller]

It doesn't work. The login-button is not visible when I do that.

Well, that's expected behaviour, don't you agree? That's just what you requested.

If you want to hide the login link, you'll of course hide it for all users, that includes yourself - how is coppermine to know the admin sits in front of a screen if he hasn't logged in yet ?

What exactly is your question now?

GauGau

[Bill_S]

With the login button hidden from everyone, you (the Admin) could just go directly to the
login URL http://www.yoursite.com/gallery/login.php  

Does that work for you?

Bill

[compac]

 Thank you, now it works.
I better like that a button that only two persons shall use, is hidden for thousands of other users.

[Bill_S]

The simplest solution is to bookmark the login URL in your browser.

Another easy solution is to create an "invisible" button with a link to the login URL.
This could be a transparent gif image or any text word with the link.

If you want to get fancy and you have a dedicated IP address, you could test for
the dedicated IP address, then display the login button if the address matches.

Choose wisely

Bill