User role based menu function

[frc]

I'm not totally new to php but I'm no guru either. I'm building an intranet and have three seperate user roles, user - manager - admin. There are some menu items I don't want to allow simple users to see. This will expand later to give them different views of a page as well (some can view/others can edit). As it stands the login validation is holding they're user level in $SESSION. To give you an idea take a look at what I'm trying to do:

 

function usermenu($usermenu) {
if($user_level=0) 
	echo ("<ul id="gooeymenu2" class="solidblockmenu">
		<li><a href="main.php">Home</a></li>
		<li><a href="forms.php">Forms</a></li>
		<li><a href="/support/index.php" target="_new">Support</a></li>
		<li><a href="documents.php">Documents</a></li>
		<li><a href="admin/index.php">Admin</a></li>
		<li><a href="logout.php">Logout</a></li>
		</ul>
		<script>
		gooeymenu.setup({id:'gooeymenu2', selectitem:1, fx:'swing'})
		</script>" ");

else($user_level=1,2)
	echo ("<ul id="gooeymenu2" class="solidblockmenu">
		<li><a href="main.php">Home</a></li>
		<li><a href="forms.php">Forms</a></li>
		<li><a href="/support/index.php" target="_new">Support</a></li>
		<li><a href="documents.php">Documents</a></li>
		<li><a href="new.php">New Adviser</a></li>
		<li><a href="admin/index.php">Admin</a></li>
		<li><a href="logout.php">Logout</a></li>
		</ul>
		<script>
		gooeymenu.setup({id:'gooeymenu2', selectitem:1, fx:'swing'})
		</script>" ");

 

Any help would be great, thanks in advance.

 

Jason

[noXstyle]

Hi there,

 

First off, since you aren't exactly new to php you already know that the code won't parse .

 

And yeah, i would create an array with page details and userlevels in it instead of echoing everything separately... To make myself clear i will provide a small snippet for you:

 

function usermenu() {
$pages = array(
  0 => array( 'page_name' => 'Index',
                     'page_url' => 'main.php',
                     'attrs' => null,
                     'userlvl' => array(1,2,3)),
  ... 
);
}

 

And then loop the array:

$menu = "<ul id=\"gooeymenu2\" class=\"solidblockmenu\">\n";
foreach($pages as $k=>$v) {
if(in_array($_SESSION['userlevel'], $v['userlvl'])) { // matches userlevel from $_SESSION to page's userlvl array
$menu .= "<li><a href=\"".$v['page_url']."\"";
if(!empty($v['attrs'])) {
  $menu .= " ".$v['attrs']; // if attributes not empty append to li.. you should format the array list as 'attrs' => "target=\"_blank\""
}
$menu .= "/>".$v['page_name']."</li>\n";
}
}
$menu .= "</ul>"; // and other stuff you need
return $menu;
} // end func
echo usermenu();

 

That way you can easily generate the menu for each userlevel.

 

But hey, that's just one idea along millions.. Hope that gives you something.

 

 

[frc]

Thanks for the reply. That's a really good idea! It's probably going to take me a few to figure it out but yay!

 

Jason