Gez How is this functionality not already a part of Community Builder?

I believe it is best practice to have menu items such as Register Now, Join Now, Login, etc disappear when the user is logged in.

I think this needs to be a top priority for the Community Builder development team.

it actually is pretty easy.

just cant be done internally with CB or CB-subs at the moment.


On my latest site, I have a wide variety of buttons being hidden when users login.


Although I havent locked it down to cb-subscription plan I can indeed hide menu items from logged users when I want to.

I added this to the bottom of my templates index file.

$user =& JFactory::getUser();
if( !$user->guest ) : ?>
<style type="text/css">
.item620 { display:none; }
.item480 { display:none; }
.item730 { display:none; }
.item67 { display:none; }
</style>

pretty self explanatory.
This hides mainmenu buttons (defined by their id's) when a user logs in.



I also can hide/show modules as well using a component called JUMI

The research I did to accomplish this was quite extensive but the actual method I ended up with to suit my needs was pretty simple.


this was the code I used in my JUMI proxy module:

<?php
$position = 'google_hide';
$user =& JFactory::getUser();
if($user->guest)
{
$document = &JFactory::getDocument();
$renderer = $document->loadRenderer('modules');
$contents = '';
echo $renderer->render($position, array('style'=>'xhtml'));
}
?>

I created a module position called google-hide.
this acts as a proxy for the real module which gets published to this position.

the proxy module get published the visible position you want on the site.
you actual module gets published to the dummy position

- Install JUMI component and module (find it in the JED)
- Add the JUMI module publish it to your desired position
- Add that code to it.
- Publish your module in a position that YOU define..(just open the module editor and type in the module position dropdown the name of the new position and save it)
- add this same module position name to the JUMI code


and now you can hide that module from logged in users.

it works flawlessly over here.
I had to make a few changes to my code to get it to work wiht RT's Gantry framework..but it is perfect.


The only complaint I have is not being able to easily what gets hidden as defined by subscription plan.