new TO DRUPAL : Hiding the navigation menu
HansR75 - November 28, 2005 - 05:03
Hi there,
I'm totally new to Drupal and the reason why I use this is because I was told it has a good users management functionality. I want to create a community-site with some smaller clubs in it. So I will use the rolebased menu's to be able to navigate true the site... But the only thing that is really disturbing me is the navigation menu.
Why is it impossible to hide it for guests ? It would be more convinient that it hides by default and you can show it to certain roles, wouldn't it ?
I know allready you can switch it of but then I can't access my admin-menu anymore and the maintainence becomes impossible.
So, how can I solve this problem ?
Greetings,
Hans.
Do what I did - turn it off
Do what I did - turn it off for everyone EXCEPT you (as a specific user, not a group)
Copenhagen Expozed
that would be usefull indeed if...
First : your site looks great, if I can get this kind of result in time I would be proud !!!
But as I mentioned I'm totally new to Drupal so how do I do that ? Because when I active this item :
"Hide this block by default but let individual users show it.
Allow individual users to customize the visibility of this block in their account settings"
Then immediatelly the navigation menu dissappears... And I'm afraid to leave then because I wouldn't be able to recover it anymore I think... :-$
Thanks for your help.
Hans.
Then you need
to be familier with this section of the handbook
http://drupal.org/node/1213
and these two pages
http://drupal.org/node/31767
http://drupal.org/node/31768
Also, I suggest you read the best practices link as well.
-sp
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Test site, always start with a test site.
Drupal Best Practices Guide -|- Black Mountain
Sorry I've been so long
Sorry I've been so long getting back to you on this.
What I did was copy the URL of the appropriate admin page (mine was"http://copenhagen.expozed.net/user/1/edit?destination=admin user" - yours will look similar), turned the menu off, then simply pasted the URL into my browser and turned it on for myself.
I agree, that this could be more user friendly, I was a bit worried about losing access too until I thought of the copy/paste thing, but it's not exactly tricky - and it's a one off situation and therefore easy to live with :)
Anyway - good luck and Happy New Year :)
Copenhagen Expozed
Do it with PHP
<?php if($user->uid) : ?>
<!-- anything in here will only be visible to AUTHENTICATED users -->
<?php endif; ?>
I wanted the same
and while searching I found this if you still need it:
http://drupal.org/node/12445
I didn't try it yet.
I agree that this should be the default behavior. I wish also there was a way to configure the menu items visibility based on roles.