Solution??? Close Automodal "class" on button submit

That worked, but I have two question for you @joedevdrupal:

1. How do you construct this link with the drupal l function l();

2. Is there a way to also redirect the user to a different page after logging in? Maybe using the Rules module would work?

Thanks,
Here is the solution for anybody else needing it.

  // if visitor is logged out
  print l('Login',
  'user/login',
  array(
  'attributes' => array(
    'class' => 'automodal',), 
    'query' => 'automodalReload=true')
    ) . ' or ' . l('Sign Up','user/register', array(
  'attributes' => array(
    'class' => 'automodal',
    )
  )
  ) . t(' for more features');

Also for the redirects you might be able to use this module:
http://drupal.org/project/automodal_url

Hope that helps someone,
-Glenn

Thanks for posting your solution Glenn-- it certainly helped me! Your formatting confused me a little bit though (looks like the query is inside the attributes array, which it's not), so I'm posting a slightly adjusted version to help others avoid the same pitfall:

  // if visitor is logged out
  print l(
    'Login', 
    'user/login',
    array(
      'attributes' => array('class' => 'automodal'), 
      'query' => 'automodalReload=true',
    )
  ); 

Solutions here look good! Closing.