Menu Item Appearance according to GroupID - How?

[Bronxgodzilla +]

Hi Gang, I need some coding assistance.
Simply stated, I do not want the normal "Registered User" to be allowed to create an advert or even see " modify listings" at all. It would seem simply enough to me to insert into layout.tpl and userindex.tpl the code below, after the normal checking if a person is logged in? Though I am using the Sigma Templates, it should be a standard 68C smarty query, right?:

	<!-- // Test If Logged In // -->
	{if $smarty.session.username<>'' || $smarty.cookies.username<>""}
	<li><a href="{$smarty.const.URL}/userindex.php">{$smarty.const.LANG_MY_ACCOUNT}</a></li>
{* ARE YOU A GROUP X  MEMBER? *}	
	         {if $smarty.session.groupid <> "2"} <!--//   exclude #2 = "Registered"  User // -->
					<li><a href="{$smarty.const.URLS}/userbrowselistings.php">{$smarty.const.LANG_TPL_MODIFY_AD}</a></li>
                              {/if}				
                     {/if}

In other words, what I want is, if the GroupID is that of a Registered User,that pPerson will NOT see the menu selection items; ALL others will (there is only Admin and Group X Member as other groups). So with the code here I do not understand why the variable GroupID is not being passed. I tried looking into {debug} but did not see any variables which gave me any illumination. I searched the Docs for "groupid" but also received no joy.

I put the same code in the userindex.tpl -- but it still does not differentiate between users & => But no group at all sees the menu selection with the above code. Can some one Please show me / enlighten me what I am doing incorrectly? It has to be something simple I am not doing due to lack of smarty brain cells :-)

Please Help. Mucho appreciation!

Barry G

[Mike-N-Tosh +]

I believe that is because this information is only stored in the session. I think you are actually after something like this:
{if $smarty.session.userlevel ne 2}
......
{/if}

[Bronxgodzilla +]

And have I not extoled thy virtues of Brilliance? Works Excellently, thank you!

Is there a primer somewhere <link> which can go into syntax such as this & differences between db called vars and ones which are stored session only? Is it covered somewhere on the smarty.com site? Thanks for a better understanding, Mike.

BarryG

[Eric Barnes]

Session data can be found by opening any php file and then adding:

PHP Code:

print_r($_SESSION); 


Then any of those are available as Mike described. Anything else you can use {debug} in the template to view the vars available.