Help regarding hidden texts

[ewriter]

Hello All

Is it possable for me to have some text on a page that is hidden unless you have logged in for example i have a web page that displays caravans for exchange with all the details for each van but i want to keep contact details hidden unless they have registered if you see what i mean to save having 2 pages 1 with all detals and 1 with restricted details ?

[Lovebug]

If I understand you correctly, you could achieve this effect in two ways: one is via CSS/JavaScript and the other is via PHP.

In CSS, you could employ the visibility:hidden/visible together with a conditional JavaScript statement. In PHP, you could just use "IF" and "include". I do not intend to go into details of how it should be done. But I just wish to tell you that it is possible. Google it up, I'm sure you'll find what you need.

Good luck!

[donna]

If you can use PHP it would be best. With Javascript/CSS anyone could look at the source and still see your text.

[Dartz]

Most likely an If statement that checks if you're logged in will do the trick. I don't know how to do it in PHP but thats the general idea.

[donna]

Basically you want to have the login form go to an 'action' page which checks that the login details are correct and if they are it will set a cookie something like 'loggedin = true' (you would set that same variable to false by default). Then the page you want hidden text on would use an if statement something like this:

if (loggedin == true) {
... show the secret text...
}

If you need more help let me know by posting again and I'll see what I can come up with for you. But chances are there are lots of scripts out there that do this. If you really don't know PHP though they may be a bit daunting to use.

Donna