Hide things until Logged in

Good evening zenners. I'm trying to have a wholesale site whereby viewers can only see products and various pages if logged in. To do this i intend to use some code i found in the forum archive. I'm trying to apply the following "IF" condition to a line in the tpl_header.php to prevent the categories navBar being shown unless logged in but it's not workin!!:( (I dont need an "else" clause do I? ) Can anyone tell me why it's not working? many thanks in advance.

*<!--bof-optional categories tabs navigation display-->
if ($_SESSION['customer_id']) {
// display this link for logged in user

}*

Your syntax is bad. You need to have some <?php and ;?> in there ...

hey ya right there Kim san!! arigato!! actually walkin' on the way home in the cold cause the subway had stopped gave me plenty of time to think!! so all i did is take the "<?php" & "?>" of the if statement (as you suggest) and put them on the outside of the entire "IF" statement. Ima totemo yoi desu! (now it's great!!) xie xie ni! :lol:
for anyone looking at doing this in the future, do this instead (notice posi of the red "<?php" & "?>" parts:

<!--bof-optional categories tabs navigation display-->
<?php** if ($_SESSION['customer_id']) { // display this link for logged in user require($template->get_template_dir('tpl_modules_categories_tabs.php ',DIR_WS_TEMPLATE, $current_page_base,'templates'). '/tpl_modules_categories_tabs.php'); } **?>

Dear zenners, I'm struggling with php. If anyone can offer some advice, please do: what i wanna do is only show the "categories" SideBox heading when a "logged in" condition is true. So i wrote this in tpl_box_default_left.php:

*<?php if ($title="Categories" and $_SESSION['customer_id']) { ?>

The result of this is:
Logged Out: No headings above any LeftHand Sidebox!!
Logged In: every SideBox has "Categories" for a heading instead of the real heading!!

It is as though the "IF" statement has totally ig
Why isnt php ignoring the first "IF" when $title doesnt = "Categories" ?
Why is php writing each heading = "Categories"??

If i reverse the order of "IF" statements i get:
Logged Out: All Headings( including "Categories" are correctly above their LeftHand Sideboxes!! Great!!
** Logged In:** every SideBox has "Categories" and other Sideboxes have their own heading AND "Categories" for a heading!!

Could somebody please help with this. Thank you so much in advance.

Arpeggio

Did you figure this out, as this is what i am wanting to do

Hi CnTGifts!

Now ya really takin' me back in time!! I had a little look and sorry to say that i didnt take that route. I have Catergories on all pages (except Top page) and my mind is too rusted with a million other things since that it"s impossible for me to offer you any more practical advice than "please keep on searchin'!" The answer will appear. ZenCart is vast and very flexible and help is teriffic. best of luck.

arpeggio.