Login/Logout.

[mixmasterhank]

I've moved the navigation bar from the template to the main of my site. And have begun to use the coppermine's login/user database for all of my site. However I can't seem to get the login/logout links to appear correctly on my mainpage. This is the code that I've got:

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       <?php
if (!USER_ID){
?>
       <a target="ifm" href="http://www.destinationundefined.com/imgal/register.php">Register</a><br>
       <a target="ifm" href="http://www.destinationundefined.com/imgal/login.php">Login</a>
       <?php
}
else{
?>
       <a target="ifm" href="http://www.destinationundefined.com/imgal/logout.php">Logout</a>
       <? } ?>


http://www.destinationundefined.com/index2.php is the website, take a look to get an idea of what I'm trying to do.

[Joachim Müller]

how is your main site suppossed to "know" USER_ID? Unless you make your main site part of coppermine, or you add a routine to read coppermine's cookie, you simply won't be able to do what you're trying to do.
I suggest you take a look at the mods/hacks board and look into "miniCMS for Coppermine", this might be what you're looking for.

Although frames/iframes might appear as an elegant solution in the first place I recommend not using this technique, as there are great disadvantages that come with frames/iframes.

GauGau

[mixmasterhank]

Yeah, but this was the only solution i could find to making the layout the way I wanted to. is there a way to make my index page be able to read the coppermine cookie? and i'll take a look at the minicms right now.

[mixmasterhank]

miniCMS work with CPG1.3.1?

[Joachim Müller]

I can see no reason why it should not work. Please try it and report back.

GauGau

[mixmasterhank]

Well I've decided I don't want to use any sort of CMS system because I can't really get the layout to look like I want, how my website looks right now http://www.destinationundefined.com/index2.php. So is there any way that I can make my index read the CPG cookies or am I out of luck?

You understand what I'm trying to do though, right?

[Joachim Müller]

take a look at Coppermine's cookie mechanism in include/init.inc.php (around // Do some cleanup in GET, POST and cookie data and un-register global vars). If you know php, you can easily create a custom function that will read the cookie set by coppermine and do the needfull.

GauGau