roles and access? hide from guest/member...

[bwakad]

I have added a role named TESTER, and a user named TEST.

My login(.php) template and page is ready but I want this only visible in menu if viewer is guest.

The login - page role says: guest (everyone) - view (and of course superuser) but no tester!

The login - template says : guest, tester, and superuser. The checkbox for tester cannot be unchecked...?

The access > roles > tester : is (for now) set to view and update password.

The access > users > test : is set to guest and tester. I cannot uncheck the guest (is required warning)...?

I guess the guest is required by all roles one creates. My question is, do I have to do something in the backend to (based on roles) hide a page from the menu, or is there something wrong with my setup, or is there another way to do this?

I hope someone can tell me what to do...

[Martijn Geerts]

if (count($user->roles) === 1) {

    echo "I'm guest & guest only.";

}

[bwakad]

hey, thanks man!

[Soma]

Or use the

$user->isGuest()

[Martijn Geerts]

if ($user->id === $config->guestUserPageID) {

  echo "i'm a guest";

}

[Pete]

Yet another way to check for guests only is with $user->isLoggedIn()

[Soma]

Or

if($user->name == "guest") ...

[bwakad]

I did it by isLoggedIn(), which is much easier to read. So in my foreach loop I use this code:

foreach($children as $child) {
        $class = $child === $page->rootParent ? " class='active'" : '';

        if ($user->isLoggedIn()) {  // is member?
               if ($child->name == "login") {  
                   // skip login page if logged in
                   continue ; 
               }
        } else {  // is guest !             
               if ($child->name == "profile" OR $child->name == "logout") { 
                   // skip profile OR logout page if logged out
                   continue; 
               }
         }            
         echo    "<li $class><a href='{$child->url}'>{$child->title}</a></li>"; 
}

Then I would think I also have to give some kind of statement in top of page, something like direct acces not allowed if one would enter it in the browser url?